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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Seneca the Younger

As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Happiness Life Money
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
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.
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Life Poison Sweet
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
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

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