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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

Seneca the Younger

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
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
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

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