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

Seneca the Younger

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Blame Giving Judgement Speak
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
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
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
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
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Inspiration Life Part Short Success
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
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
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People

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