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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.

Seneca the Younger

People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Die People Philosophy Themselves
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Benefit Birthday Done
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
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
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
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity

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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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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