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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.

Seneca the Younger

Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
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
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise

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