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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.

Seneca the Younger

Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Happiness Life Money
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
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
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Education Men Teacher
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ad Death Journey Life

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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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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