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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.

Seneca the Younger

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
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Knowledge Learning Love
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men
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
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
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
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven

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