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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

Seneca the Younger

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
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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Life Poison Sweet
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
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.
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Blessing Death Mean
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices

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