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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

Seneca the Younger

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
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
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
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
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality

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