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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.

Seneca the Younger

There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Happiness Life Money
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation

Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.

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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.

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