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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

Seneca the Younger

There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
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 that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

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