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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

Seneca the Younger

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
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Wise
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Although Care Long Men
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

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