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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

No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
Life without literary studies is death.
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Death Life Literature Study
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
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
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife
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 fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason

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