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Every journey has an end.

Seneca the Younger

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
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
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Color Life Mastery Wisdom
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy

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