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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

Seneca the Younger

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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
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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Blessing Death Mean
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
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
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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