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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

We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Benefit Birthday Done
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty

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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