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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.

Seneca the Younger

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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blessing Death Mean
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men Prompt
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
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
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Believe Birthday Happiness
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
[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
Life without literary studies is death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Life Literature Study

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