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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

Seneca the Younger

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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men Prompt
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
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
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Men Thrown Ungrateful
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious

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