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

Seneca the Younger

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Believe Birthday Happiness
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Color Life Mastery Wisdom
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Idea Men Work Write
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Remember Tolerance
Men learn while they teach.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Education Inspirational Teacher
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
All art is but imitation of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Art Garden Philosophical
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
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Son Success
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beneficial Delightful Read
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learner Library Wander
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Delight Difficulty Remind
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Joy Men
Life is long if you know how to use it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Long Use
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Kind Misery Spiteful
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
No crime has been without a precedent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Precedent Prison
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Infidelity Men Wife
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophical Pilot Storm
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Choices Little Struggle
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Life Wise
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Atheist Religious Wise
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Modesty Repeat Time
If you wish to be loved, love.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Life Love People Person
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Escape Necessity Overcoming
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Humble Men Poverty

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

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