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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

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Knowledge Learning Love
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
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
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction

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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