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People do not die – they kill themselves.

Seneca the Younger

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
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
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
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
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
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom

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