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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

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Leadership Philosophical Vision
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Foundation Moderation Unstable
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution

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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