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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Seneca the Younger

We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
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
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
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
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Leadership Philosophical Vision
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Addiction Life Positive Thinking
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

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