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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law

Seneca the Younger

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Home Life Short Spiritual
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
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
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Although Care Long Men
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
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

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