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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

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
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
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
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
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Leadership Philosophical Vision

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

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