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

Seneca the Younger

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
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
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
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
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
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror

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

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