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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

Seneca the Younger

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Although Care Long Men
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Addiction Life Positive Thinking
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
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
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
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
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
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men

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