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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

Seneca the Younger

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ambition Know Mind
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
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
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
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
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
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
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
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hand Men Wise

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

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