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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.

Seneca the Younger

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Charity Disclose Office
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
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
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness

Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.

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