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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Seneca the Younger

The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Addiction Life Positive Thinking
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Compact Made Poverty Rich
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Home Life Short Spiritual
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
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
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

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

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