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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

Seneca the Younger

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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
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Alive Death Literature
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
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
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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