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Life is long if you know how to use it.

Seneca the Younger

The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hand Men Wise
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
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.
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Light might People
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light 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.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Brave Joy Laughing True
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life

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