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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.

Seneca the Younger

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
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
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
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
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Disappointment Office Years

If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.

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