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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law

Seneca the Younger

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
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
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
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
Men learn while they teach.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
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
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
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
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress

Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law

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