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Be harsh with yourself at times.

Seneca the Younger

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Evil Shine Wicked
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
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife

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