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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

Seneca the Younger

In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
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
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
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
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
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
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
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
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind

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