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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

Seneca the Younger

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
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
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 vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
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
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men

Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

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