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

Seneca the Younger

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
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
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
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
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
Life without literary studies is death.
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Death Life Literature Study
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness

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