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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca the Younger

There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fall Wisdom
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophical Pilot Storm
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alive Death Literature
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Foundation Moderation Unstable
If you judge, investigate.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Judge Philosophical Umpire
One hand washes the other.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
The sun shines even on the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Evil Shine Wicked
The expression of truth is simplicity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Expression Inspirational Simplicity
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beforehand Come Foresight Present
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Secret Tedious Truth
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Leisure Vice
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Error First Step
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
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

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