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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

Seneca the Younger

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
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
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Inspiration Life Part Short Success
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
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
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophy Plato Science
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Accept Condonement Genius Measure

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

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