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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

Seneca the Younger

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
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
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth

Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

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