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A great fortune is a great slavery.
Topic: Money
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Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.
Topic: Money
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That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Topic: Ostentation
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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Topic: Passion
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If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
Topic: Perspective
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Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
Topic: Philosophy
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Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."
Latin: "A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. - Letters to Lucilius.
Topic: Politics / Government
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Topic: Quotes
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Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
Topic: Restraint
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The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
Topic: Salvation
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Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
Topic: Self-knowledge
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If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
Topic: Sensuality
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If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
Topic: Sensuality
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Topic: Shame
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A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. Kim, Age 11 -Seneca.
Topic: Stress
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
Topic: Suffering
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Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
Topic: Tears
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Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
Topic: Travel
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
Topic: Vice
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What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
Topic: Vices
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Topic: Vices
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The sun also shines on the wicked.
Topic: Wickedness
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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
Topic: Will
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