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Life is long if you know how to use it.

Seneca the Younger

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
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
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
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Inspiration Life Part Short Success
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
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
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity

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