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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 repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Matter Think Unblest
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Leisure Praying
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
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
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Enough Language Truth
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Men Unhappy
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Delight Help Others Support
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bear Mind Money Wealth
Injustice never rules forever.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Forever Injustice Justice
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Law People Retirement
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Judge Persuade Sin
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hand Men Wise
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Amendment Arms Bearing Gun

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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