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Seneca the Younger

Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give 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
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Addiction Life Positive Thinking
The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Evil Shine Wicked
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
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
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
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
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical

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