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The part of life which we really live is short.

Seneca the Younger

[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
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
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
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
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
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
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
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
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise

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