Seneca
Seneca
equal strive
To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
hard suffer suffering sweet
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
body disease
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
cute-love love sweet-love true whom
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
bear hard memory sweet
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
fools-and-foolishness hatred inflicted
A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
age-and-aging among declining embrace extreme gradually love maintain pleasure reached sweetest
As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
authority founded injustice
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
bent cares hungry justice listens nor people prayers
A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers
behind self-knowledge sins
Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
amiable ancestry born unless
No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
despised hate learned until
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
discipline evil heart human powerful propensity subdued
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.
cases envy estimate evil less loss troubles
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.