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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

Seneca the Younger

Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Emotion Goes Hold Love True
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
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
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
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
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
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

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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