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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

Seneca the Younger

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

Compact Made Poverty Rich
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beforehand Come Foresight Present
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Men Powerful
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hateful
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Prudence Punish
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Length Quiet Weary
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Leisure Vice
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greed Luxury Madness Peace
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Brave Joy Laughing True
All art is but imitation of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Art Garden Philosophical
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fear Light Philosophical
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hatred Men Revenge
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Benefit Letter Together
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Drunkenness People Vices
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cures Fail Reason
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dread Fear Much Unfit

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

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