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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

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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Action Destination Honor
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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