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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

Seneca the Younger

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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Wise
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Happiness Inspirational Laughter
A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Money Philosophical Slavery
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Feel Philosophical Real
Life without literary studies is death.
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