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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

Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
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 medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
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
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.
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Hand Men Wise
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures

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