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The worse a person is the less he feels it.

Seneca the Younger

Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
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
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
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
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm

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