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People do not die – they kill themselves.

Seneca the Younger

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
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
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other

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