You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.

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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

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No man was ever wise by chance.

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While we are postponing life speeds up.

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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in a firmness of mind and mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as talk; and to make our actions and words all of a color.

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