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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

Seneca the Younger

It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
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
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
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

He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

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