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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.

Seneca the Younger

People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Die People Philosophy Themselves
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
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
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
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’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
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
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
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
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Inspiration Life Part Short Success

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.

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