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Time discovers truth.

Seneca the Younger

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Believe Birthday Happiness
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Friend Friendship Necessarily
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Evil Shine Wicked
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars

Time discovers truth.

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