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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Seneca the Younger

We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Emotion Goes Hold Love True
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
Life without literary studies is death.
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Death Life Literature Study
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request

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