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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.

Seneca the Younger

Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Addiction Life Positive Thinking
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
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
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Evil Shine Wicked
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self
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
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hand Men Wise

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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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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