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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.

Seneca the Younger

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Happiness Life Money
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
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
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
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
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person

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