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The sun shines even on the wicked.

Seneca the Younger

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
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
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
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
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
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
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

The sun shines even on the wicked.

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