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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca the Younger

In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Feel Philosophical Real
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet

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