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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

Seneca the Younger

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Foundation Moderation Unstable
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain

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