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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

Seneca the Younger

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Knowledge Learning Love
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Liberal Philosophical Trust
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
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Friend Friendship Necessarily
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
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

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