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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

Seneca the Younger

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
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
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Evil Shine Wicked
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
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
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
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
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

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