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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.

Seneca the Younger

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help May Need
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
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
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Gratitude Profit Virtue
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present

Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.

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