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While we are postponing, life speeds by.

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
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
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Blame Giving Judgement Speak
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
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
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Feel Philosophical Real
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
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

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

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