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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.

Seneca the Younger

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
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Color Life Mastery Wisdom
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
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
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

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