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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.

Seneca the Younger

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Home Life Short Spiritual
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Brave Joy Laughing True
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason
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
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
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical

No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.

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