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Disease is not of the body but of the place.

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
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Down Hand Let Pit
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
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
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men

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