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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

Seneca the Younger

He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
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
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
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.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Down Hand Let Pit

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

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