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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.

Seneca the Younger

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
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
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking

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