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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

Seneca the Younger

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
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anything Delight Help Other
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Affection Coal Squares
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
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Feel Philosophical Real
Whatever begins, also ends.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Begin Close End Time
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
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
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Director Teacher Vice
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Attachment Esteem Self Thinking

Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

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