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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

Seneca the Younger

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease

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