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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.

Seneca the Younger

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
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
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
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Air Breath Deep Spirit
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Addiction Life Positive Thinking
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
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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Anxiety Leisure Praying
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice

He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.

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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.

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