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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

Seneca the Younger

Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Foundation Moderation Unstable
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Mingle Wise
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

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