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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

Seneca the Younger

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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
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
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Brave Joy Laughing True
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
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
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
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
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
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