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

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
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Evil Real Suffering
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
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
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Inspirational Success Tattoo
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Men Thrown Ungrateful

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