It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
Subject:
Life   
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Subject:
Perseverance   
Greatness   
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Subject:
Vices   
Source: Moral Letters to Lucilius, 64 A.D.
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Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
Subject:
Life   
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If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
Subject:
Character   
Good   
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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
Subject:
Grief   
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In war there is no prize for runner-up.
Subject:
War   
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
Subject:
Time   
Reason   
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
Subject:
Duty   
Justice   
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The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
Subject:
Wealth   
Moderation   
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Subject:
Decisions   
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Modesty forbids what the law does not.
Subject:
Laws   
Modesty   
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It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Subject:
Charity   
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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
Subject:
Grief   
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We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.
Subject:
Wisdom   
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What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature.
Subject:
Nature   
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We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.
Subject:
Wisdom   
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A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
Subject:
Mankind   
Sin   
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Subject:
Laws   
Shame   
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That grief is light which can take counsel.
Subject:
Grief   
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