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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

Seneca the Younger

Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Knowledge Learning Love
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
[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
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

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