"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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"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.“
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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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