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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

Seneca the Younger

There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
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
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
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
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support

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