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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.

Seneca the Younger

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 thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
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
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
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
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
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
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Emotion Goes Hold Love True
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful

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