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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

Seneca the Younger

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
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
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Home Life Short Spiritual
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Emotion Goes Hold Love True
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

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