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As long as you live, learn how to live.

Seneca the Younger

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
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
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust

As long as you live, learn how to live.

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