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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Seneca the Younger

Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Pain Release
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Air Breath Deep Spirit
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
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
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Give Inspirational Men
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
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
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt

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