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People do not die – they kill themselves.

Seneca the Younger

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Happiness Life Money
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
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
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
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
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Brave Joy Laughing True
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
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

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