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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

Seneca the Younger

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Conscience Foundation Joy True
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
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
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Happiness Life

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