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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

Seneca the Younger

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
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
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
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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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice

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