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“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”
Seneca
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”
“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”
“This is the reason we cannot complain of life:it keeps no one against his will”
“Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember”
“You are your choices.”
“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”
“If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.”
“All cruelty springs from hardheartedness and weakness”
“It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it”