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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

Seneca the Younger

Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
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
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
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
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
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
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish

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