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The part of life which we really live is short.

Seneca the Younger

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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Poison Sweet
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Brave Men
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Dawn Philosophical
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Men World
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Choices Little Struggle

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