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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

Seneca the Younger

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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
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
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Emotion Goes Hold Love True
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason

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