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People do not die – they kill themselves.

Seneca the Younger

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
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Inspirational Success Tattoo
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
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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Able Mind Peace Terror
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Mingle Wise
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Men Thrown Ungrateful
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue

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