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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

Seneca the Younger

It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Inspiration Life Part Short Success
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

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