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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

Seneca the Younger

That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
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
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
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
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
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People

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