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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Seneca the Younger

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
Life without literary studies is death.
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Death Life Literature Study
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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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self

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