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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

Seneca the Younger

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
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

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