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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

Seneca the Younger

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
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?
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Death Kindness Life
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
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
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bles Life Live Well

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