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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

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Emotion Goes Hold Love True
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
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
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom

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