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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

Seneca the Younger

What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
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
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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