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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.

Seneca the Younger

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
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
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
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
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
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
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof

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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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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