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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Seneca the Younger

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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Benefit Birthday Done
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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