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No crime has been without a precedent.

Seneca the Younger

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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Believe Birthday Happiness
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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