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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

Seneca the Younger

Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Compact Made Poverty Rich
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Good Innocence Law

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

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