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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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