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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.

Seneca the Younger

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
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
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
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
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
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Feel Philosophical Real
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View

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