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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

Seneca the Younger

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Favor Silent Speak
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Birthday End Eternity Fear
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Escape Necessity Overcoming
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Betray Faces Guilt
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Mind Peace
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Distress Fellow Man
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Punishment Suicidal
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Good Innocence Law
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Laughter
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Knowledge Learning Love
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Although Care Long Men
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blessing Death Mean
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alive Death Literature
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Kindness Life

The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

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