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Successful villany is called virtue.

Seneca the Younger

He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
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
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
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
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Home Life Short Spiritual
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science

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