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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Seneca the Younger

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
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
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
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

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

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