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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.

Seneca the Younger

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Education Men Teacher
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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.
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Hand Men Wise
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
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
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.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men

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