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The part of life which we really live is short.

Seneca the Younger

Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Our Please Word
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Independence Step Treatment
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
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
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Love Rule
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Laughter
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
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
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Assuming Honor Men Prompt
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise

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