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Luck never made a man wise.

Seneca the Younger

It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
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
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken

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