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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

Seneca the Younger

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
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
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
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
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
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer
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
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

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