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Where fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca the Younger

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
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men

Where fear is, happiness is not.

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