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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

Seneca the Younger

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
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath
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
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule

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