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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

Seneca the Younger

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
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
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal

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