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The worse a person is the less he feels it.

Seneca the Younger

One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Happiness Life Money
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men
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 worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
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 worse a person is the less he feels it.

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