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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

Seneca the Younger

He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
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 only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
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
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
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
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life

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