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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

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
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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