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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

Seneca the Younger

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
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
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
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
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth

Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

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