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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts

Seneca the Younger

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
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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Down Hand Let Pit
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
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
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor

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