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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

Seneca the Younger

He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

End Inspirational Way
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Independence Step Treatment
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
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
As long as you live, learn how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Live Long

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