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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

Seneca the Younger

The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men Prompt
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
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
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
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
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

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