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

Seneca the Younger

We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth
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
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
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
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational

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

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