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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

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
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
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
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
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
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 worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
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
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
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
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Men Thrown Ungrateful

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