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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

Seneca the Younger

Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
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
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
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
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
Time discovers truth.
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