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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.

Seneca the Younger

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
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
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
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
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.

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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.

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