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Don’t stumble over something behind you.

Seneca the Younger

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heaven Soul Taken
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Friend Friendship Necessarily
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom

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