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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca the Younger

Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Addiction Life Positive Thinking
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
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
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
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
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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