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Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
Seneca the Younger
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When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?
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Trifling trouble find utterance deeply felt pangs are silent.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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People do not die - they kill themselves.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue the good become the slaves of the wicked might makes right fear silences the power of the law.
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A good mind possesses a kingdom.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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A favor is to a grateful man delightful always to an ungrateful man only once.
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He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it
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Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.
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