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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.

Seneca the Younger

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alive Death Literature
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
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
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth

We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.

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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.

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