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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca the Younger

There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
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 mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men

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