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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

Seneca the Younger

He who has great power should use it lightly.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Philosophical Vision
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

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

Happiness Life Money
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fate Men Wish
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dresses Fear Number
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dread Fear Much Unfit
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Number Slavery
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hear More Nobody Repeat
Injustice never rules forever.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Forever Injustice Justice
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.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
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Arm Denial Hero Self
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
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
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

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

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