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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.

Seneca the Younger

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Kind Misery Spiteful
Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Air Breath Deep Spirit
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
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
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Down Hand Let Pit
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature

Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.

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