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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

Seneca the Younger

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Down Hand Let Pit
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality

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