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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

The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
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
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
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
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice

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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