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The sun shines even on the wicked.

Seneca the Younger

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
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
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Color Life Mastery Wisdom
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
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
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
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison

The sun shines even on the wicked.

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