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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

Seneca the Younger

He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Compact Made Poverty Rich
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt

Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

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