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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.

Seneca the Younger

If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Give Inspirational Men
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Half More Trouble
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
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 man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Hero Life
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Action Destination Honor
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Genius Madness Mixtures
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Congratulations Success Think

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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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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