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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.

Seneca the Younger

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
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
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
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
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy

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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