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People do not die - they kill themselves.

Seneca the Younger

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Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
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The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
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Trifling trouble find utterance deeply felt pangs are silent.
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Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.
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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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