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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Seneca the Younger

Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person
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
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Blame Giving Judgement Speak
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Home Life Short Spiritual
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife

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