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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

Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Foundation Moderation Unstable
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
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
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
Life without literary studies is death.
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Death Life Literature Study
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise

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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