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Life is short and art is long.
Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Every guilty person is his own hangman.
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If you live according to nature, you never will be poor if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
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What once were vices are manners now.
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Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride
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Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.
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We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.
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The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.
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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
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To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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True friends are the whole world to one another and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.
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... frugality makes a poor man rich.
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If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a veil of pleached and intertwining branches, then the loftiness of the forest, the seclusion of the spot and your marvel at the thick unbroken shade in the midst of the open spaces, will prove to you the presence of deity.
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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
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