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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.

Seneca the Younger

All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Matter Think Unblest
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Conscience Foundation Joy True
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light

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