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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

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
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
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
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
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

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