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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.

Seneca the Younger

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
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
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
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
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
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Emotion Goes Hold Love True
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror

The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.

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