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People do not die – they kill themselves.

Seneca the Younger

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Happiness Life Money
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
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
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
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
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Compact Made Poverty Rich
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue

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