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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

[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
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Love Military Soldier
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
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
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

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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