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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

Seneca the Younger

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
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
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
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
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
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time

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