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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Seneca the Younger

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Foundation Moderation Unstable
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

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