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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

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
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred
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
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
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
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
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
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking

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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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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