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Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness. (Seneca)
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated. View quote
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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command. View quote
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While you teach, you learn. View quote
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Whom they have injured they also hate. Quos lserunt et oderunt. View quote
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We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur. View quote
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one. View quote
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You roll my log, and I will roll yours. View quote
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True love hates and will not bear delay. View quote
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Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us. View quote
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Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order. (Seneca)
Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent. View quote
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return. View quote
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure. View quote
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Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee. View quote
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Take away ambitions and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots. View quote
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation. View quote
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich. View quote
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The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body. View quote
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The velocity with which time flies is infinite, As is most apparent to those who look back. View quote
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The arts are the servant; wisdom its master. (Seneca)
The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual. View quote
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Happy the man who can endure the highest And the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power. View quote
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Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible. View quote
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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of Ambition that it never looks behind it. View quote
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