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Men learn while they teach.

Seneca the Younger

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Blame Giving Judgement Speak
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
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
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
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
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy

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