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

Seneca the Younger

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help May Need
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
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
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
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
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
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.
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Choices Little Struggle
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress

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