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

Seneca the Younger

He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
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
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Benefit Birthday Done
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Air Breath Deep Spirit
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
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
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
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People

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