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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

Seneca the Younger

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
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Evil Shine Wicked
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
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
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
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
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical

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