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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca the Younger

Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
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
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
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
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
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
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
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
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal

One crime has to be concealed by another.

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