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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

Seneca the Younger

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Evil Real Suffering
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer
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 hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men Prompt
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Knowledge Learning Love
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

The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

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