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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

Seneca the Younger

They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
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
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Air Breath Deep Spirit
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
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
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Conscience Foundation Joy True
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion

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