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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca the Younger

There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Love Military Soldier
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Evil Real Suffering
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophical Pilot Storm
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
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
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Believe Birthday Happiness
People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Die People Philosophy
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things

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