People do not care how nobly they live, only how long, despite the fact that it is within everyone's reach to live nobly, but within no one's reach to live long.
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This is the reason we cannot complain of life it keeps no one against his will.
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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure, if you know how to use it. The gradually (I do not say rapidly) declining years are amongst the sweetest in a mans life and, I maintain, that even where they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
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The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
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