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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca the Younger

The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
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 state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Home Life Short Spiritual
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Brave Joy Laughing True
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View

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