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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

Seneca the Younger

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason
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
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 part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Benefit Birthday Done
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men Prompt
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View

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