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

Seneca the Younger

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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
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
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Emotion Goes Hold Love True

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