For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren’t right for ourselves.
CATO THE YOUNGERFor it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.
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It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
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Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys.
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Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
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Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.
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A honest man is seldom a vagrant.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.
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In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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