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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.

Seneca the Younger

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Compact Made Poverty Rich
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person
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 greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.

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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.

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