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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.

Seneca the Younger

It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Air Breath Deep Spirit
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
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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Hatred Men Revenge
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish

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