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Where fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca the Younger

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
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
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
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
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Independence Step Treatment
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
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
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
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

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