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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

Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
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
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men

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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