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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

Seneca the Younger

Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Home Life Short Spiritual
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
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
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
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
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Foundation Moderation Unstable
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men Prompt
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

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