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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.

Seneca the Younger

Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality

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