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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

The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Evil Shine Wicked
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
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
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
Men learn while they teach.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
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.
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Death Dying Wonder

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