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Life without literary studies is death.

Seneca the Younger

We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
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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Admire Guide Speak
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
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
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
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 young man must store up, the old man must use.
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