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A thousand approaches lie open to death.

Seneca the Younger

What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
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

A thousand approaches lie open to death.

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