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

Seneca the Younger

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fear Heaven
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Invites Refusal Request
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Character Crooked Need
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Happiness Life
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

End Eternity Fear
Life without literary studies is death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Life Literature Study
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Epileptic Precaution Regard
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fall Wisdom
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Son Success
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Stores Use
In every good man a God doth dwell.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Good Man Very
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Counsel Grief Light People
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Failure Happiness
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ad Death Journey Life
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ashame Master Servitude

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

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