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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

Seneca the Younger

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Happiness Inspirational Laughter
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Benefit Birthday Done
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
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?”
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Dresses Fear Number
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
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.
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Happiness Men Powerful
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution

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