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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Seneca the Younger

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
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
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent

True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

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