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Who timidly requests invites refusal.

Seneca the Younger

Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Feel Philosophical Real
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
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
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
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
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Inspirational Success Tattoo
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason

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