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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

Seneca the Younger

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Friend Friendship Necessarily
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
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!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heart Think View
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge

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