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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it

Seneca the Younger

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
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
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
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
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’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
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
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor

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