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“It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.”

Seneca the Younger

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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks…

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It is for the superfluous we sweat.

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Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is…

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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

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Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

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Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is…

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To rule yourself is the ultimate power

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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

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Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

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He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life…

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Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do…

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