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The young man must store up, the old man must use.

Seneca the Younger

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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
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Benefit Birthday Done
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
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
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
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
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves

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