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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.

Seneca the Younger

The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Down Hand Let Pit
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
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
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
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.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive

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