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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

Seneca the Younger

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
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
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth
The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Evil Shine Wicked
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Knowledge Learning Love

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

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