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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

Seneca the Younger

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Knowledge Learning Love

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