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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

Seneca the Younger

Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
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
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Although Care Long Men
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Success Wisdom
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself

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