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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

Seneca the Younger

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
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
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor

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