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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

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Addiction Life Positive Thinking
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Believe Birthday Happiness
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Wise
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
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
[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
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present

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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