Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Men learn while they teach.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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