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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

Seneca the Younger

The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Leadership Philosophical Vision
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
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
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Feel Philosophical Real
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Inspirational Success Tattoo
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
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

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

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