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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.

Seneca the Younger

Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
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
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
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
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
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit

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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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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