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

Seneca the Younger

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
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
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
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
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
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 world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
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.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious

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