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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

Seneca the Younger

It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Addiction Life Positive Thinking
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
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
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self

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