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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.

Seneca the Younger

As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
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
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
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
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.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Air Breath Deep Spirit

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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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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