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He has committed the crime who profits by it.
Seneca the Younger
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The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can.
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Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
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I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
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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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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.
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If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a veil of pleached and intertwining branches, then the loftiness of the forest, the seclusion of the spot and your marvel at the thick unbroken shade in the midst of the open spaces, will prove to you the presence of deity.
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He who seeks wisdom is a wise man he who thinks he has found it is mad.
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We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.
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We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. True happiness is ... to enjoy the present It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.
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Ignorance is the cause of fear.
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A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
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Principles are like seeds they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.
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Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
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Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.
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It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
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