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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.

Seneca the Younger

It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
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
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
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
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Conscience Foundation Joy True
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
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness

When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.

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