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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.

Seneca the Younger

But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hatred
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Gratitude Profit Virtue
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Feel Philosophical Real
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
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
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life

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