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The sun shines even on the wicked.

Seneca the Younger

That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
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 Prompt
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
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
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Feel Philosophical Real
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise

The sun shines even on the wicked.

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