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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

Seneca the Younger

Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
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 fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Color Life Mastery Wisdom
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

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