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As long as you live, learn how to live.

Seneca the Younger

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
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
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.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero 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
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write

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