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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

Seneca the Younger

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
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
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
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
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
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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Mind Relaxation Stronger
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Home Life Short Spiritual
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

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