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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.

Seneca the Younger

There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
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.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person

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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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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