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The world itself is too small for the covetous.

Seneca the Younger

True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
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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Down Hand Let Pit
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Foundation Moderation Unstable
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
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
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent

The world itself is too small for the covetous.

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