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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.

Seneca the Younger

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Addiction Life Positive Thinking
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
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
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
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
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 proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.

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