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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

Seneca the Younger

The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Air Breath Deep Spirit
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
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 Mingle Wise
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Knowledge Learning Love
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
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
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 do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

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