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As long as you live, learn how to live.

Seneca the Younger

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Independence Step Treatment
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Wise
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
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Inspirational Success Tattoo
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth

As long as you live, learn how to live.

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