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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

Seneca the Younger

The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
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
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
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace

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