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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

Seneca the Younger

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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
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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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
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
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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