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

Seneca the Younger

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
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
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
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
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
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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