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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.

Seneca the Younger

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
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
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
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 man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares

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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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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