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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

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophical Pilot Storm
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Past Time
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Laughter
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hatred
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beneficial Delightful Read
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Counsel Grief Light People
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Dawn Philosophical
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hear More Nobody Repeat
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Motivational Positive
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Humble Men Poverty
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Equality Vice Virtue
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Brave Men
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Our Please Word
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Shortness Waste
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Excellence Philosophical Quality
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Light might People
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Foundation Joy True Vex
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ad Death Journey Life
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Admire Praise Provoking
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Goal Management Planning
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bles Life Live Well
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Delight Difficulty Remind
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Down Hand Let Pit
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Men World
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fate Men Wish

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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