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The part of life which we really live is short.

Seneca the Younger

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
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
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
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
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
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

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