Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
Seneca the Younger
No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
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The much occupied man has no time for wantonness, and it is an obvious commonplace that the evils of leisure can be shaken off by hard work.
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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he gives and receives praise.
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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
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Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.
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A trifling debt makes a man your debtor; a large one makes him an enemy.
Man is a reasoning animal.
Kindly remember that he whom you call your slave sprang from the same stock, is smiled upon by the same skies, and on equal terms with yourself breathes, lives and dies. It is just as possible for you to see in him a free-born man as for him to see in you a slave.
That man lives badly who does not know how to die well.
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