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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

Seneca the Younger

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Knowledge Learning Love
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
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
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Success Wisdom
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men

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