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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Seneca the Younger

How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
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
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
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
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
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
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
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
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

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

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