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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.

Seneca the Younger

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
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Inspiration Life Part Short Success
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
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
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
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
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
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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Innocence Men Mind
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking

One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.

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