Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFour things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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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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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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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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His head was turned by too great success.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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