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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

Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Foundation Moderation Unstable
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Compact Made Poverty Rich
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
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
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery

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