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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.

Seneca the Younger

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
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
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
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
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
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
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Emotion Goes Hold Love True
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison

Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.

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