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

Seneca the Younger

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alive Death Literature
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
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
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
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
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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