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Seneca the Younger

If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Doubt Hope Wise
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Burn Grief Secret
A great fortune is a great slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Money Philosophical Slavery
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion People Person World
In every good man a God doth dwell.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Good Man Very
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Charity Disclose Office
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fear Heaven
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Punishment Suicidal
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Medicine Men Search Sick
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dream People Vice
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Assuming Honor Men Prompt
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Health Inside Love People
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Everybody Friend Life Own
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Relaxation Stronger
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beginnings Life New Spring

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