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A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.
Seneca the Younger
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It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.
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He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
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Resistance to oppression is second nature.
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You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope for hope is accompanied by fear.
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A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
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Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
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