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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

Seneca the Younger

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
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
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical

Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

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