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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.

Seneca the Younger

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
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

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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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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