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

Seneca the Younger

If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Doubt Hope Wise
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
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
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Punishment Suicidal
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish

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

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