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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.

Seneca the Younger

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
Men learn while they teach.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Air Breath Deep Spirit
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
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
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Down Hand Let Pit
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle

But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.

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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.

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