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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.

Seneca the Younger

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Independence Step Treatment
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
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
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Emotion Goes Hold Love True
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge

Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.

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