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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

Seneca the Younger

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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
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
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
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
Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
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
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Knowledge Learning Love
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
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
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men Prompt

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