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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Seneca the Younger

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
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
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
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
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

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