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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

Seneca the Younger

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Honor Justice Loss
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Mind Peace
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Motivational Positive
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
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Active Employment Vice
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Book Mind Together
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Approach Lying Thousand
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Law People Retirement
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Affection Coal Squares
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Enough Language Truth
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beneficial Delightful Read
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Men Nature Return
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophical Pilot Storm
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Element Madness Talent
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Prudence Punish

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

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