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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

Seneca the Younger

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
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
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
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

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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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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