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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.

Seneca the Younger

One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Education Men Teacher
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
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
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
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law

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