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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

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
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 mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth

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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