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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.

Seneca the Younger

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason
A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Money Philosophical Slavery
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Love Military Soldier
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice

He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.

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