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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.

Seneca the Younger

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
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
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
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science

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