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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.

Seneca the Younger

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
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
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
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
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
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
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret

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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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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