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

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
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
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
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
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
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution

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