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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.

Seneca the Younger

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Leadership Philosophical Vision
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
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life

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