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Revenge is an inhuman word.

Seneca the Younger

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
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
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Down Hand Let Pit
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet

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