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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

Seneca the Younger

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
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
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
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
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
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
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use

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