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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Seneca the Younger

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Bles Life Live Well
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Friend Friendship Necessarily
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Mingle Wise
Life without literary studies is death.
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Death Life Literature Study
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
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

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