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

Seneca the Younger

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
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
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
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
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
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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Action Destination Honor
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
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 Mingle Wise
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Happiness Inspirational Laughter
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
Life without literary studies is death.
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Death Life Literature Study
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Emotion Goes Hold Love True
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fall Wisdom
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind

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

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