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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

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Love Military Soldier
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
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
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Happiness Inspirational Laughter

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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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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