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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.

Seneca the Younger

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Independence Step Treatment
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
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
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise

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