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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
Seneca the Younger
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For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.
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What once were vices are manners now.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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What is true belongs to me!
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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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