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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Seneca the Younger

One crime has to be concealed by another.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Philosophical Prison
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
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
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Education Men Teacher
Men learn while they teach.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
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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Anxiety Leisure Praying
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Happiness Life Money
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
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
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Home Life Short Spiritual

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

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