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Injustice never rules forever.

Seneca the Younger

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
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Happiness Inspirational Laughter
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Brave Joy Laughing True
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
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
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
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

Injustice never rules forever.

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