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

Seneca the Younger

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
Men learn while they teach.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Leadership Philosophical Vision
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Success Tattoo
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
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
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 Prompt
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success

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