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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

Seneca the Younger

It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
Life without literary studies is death.
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Death Life Literature Study
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
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
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
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
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship

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