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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.

Seneca the Younger

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
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
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Compact Made Poverty Rich
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
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
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Inspiration Life Part Short Success
Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Benefit Birthday Done
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
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth

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