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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

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
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
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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