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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.

Seneca the Younger

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

Courage Hero Life
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Evil Real Suffering
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Evil Shine Wicked
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Doubt Hope Mingle Wise
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men 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
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
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror

If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.

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