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After death there is nothing.

Seneca the Younger

It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Example Luxury Mischief People
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Down Hand Let Pit
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Inspiration Life Part Short Success
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Men Thrown Ungrateful

After death there is nothing.

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