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

Seneca the Younger

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Modesty Repeat Time
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alive Death Literature
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Men Mind
No crime has been without a precedent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Precedent Prison
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Giving Teeth
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

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

Philosophical Pilot Storm
Life without literary studies is death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Life Literature Study
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Birthday End Eternity Fear
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Dying Wonder
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.
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Fate Men Wish
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Way Wisdom
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desirable People Poor

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