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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

A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
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
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
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

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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