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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

Seneca the Younger

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Inspiration Life Part Short Success
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Money Philosophical Slavery
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
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
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Addiction Life Positive Thinking

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