"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.“
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"No man was ever wise by chance."
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"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."
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"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."
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"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."
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"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."
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