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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

Seneca the Younger

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
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
Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
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
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
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
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
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

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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