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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Seneca the Younger

The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Quality Quantity Wise
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Lying Money Political
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Generation Humanity Passion
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Remember Tolerance
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Admirer Praise Provoke
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Long Thing Well
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Excess Pleasure Repetition
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Approach Lying Thousand
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Matter Think Unblest
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Foundation Joy True Vex
Time discovers truth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Discover Life Time Truth
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer
People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Die People Philosophy Themselves
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Master Slave Tyranny
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dawn Expectation Night
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Benefit Birthday Done

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

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