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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

Seneca the Younger

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Life Money
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alive Death Literature
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Disappointment Office Years
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Our Please Word
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
Luck never made a man wise.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Wisdom Wise
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
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Compact Made Poverty Rich
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Goal Management Planning
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Foundation Moderation Unstable
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

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

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