If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPoverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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