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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

Seneca the Younger

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
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
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
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
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

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