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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

Seneca the Younger

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
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
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Foundation Moderation Unstable
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
Life without literary studies is death.
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Death Life Literature Study
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
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
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
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

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