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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

Seneca the Younger

Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Color Life Mastery Wisdom
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
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
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

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

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