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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.

Seneca the Younger

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
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
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Education Men Teacher
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
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
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
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
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking

Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.

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