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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

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
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
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
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
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Benefit Birthday Done
Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
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
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking

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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