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

Seneca the Younger

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
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
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
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
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
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Wise
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace

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

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