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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

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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
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
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
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
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Inspirational Success Tattoo
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy

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