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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

He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Education Men Teacher
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
Life without literary studies is death.
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Death Life Literature Study
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

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

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