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Injustice never rules forever.

Seneca the Younger

Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Knowledge Learning Love
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Conscience Foundation Joy True
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
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
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow

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