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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

Seneca the Younger

One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
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
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
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
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Happiness Life Money
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word

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