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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.

Seneca the Younger

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Inspiration Life Part Short Success
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Foundation Moderation Unstable
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious

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