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A good conscience fears no witnesses, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even of solitude.
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Where the mind is tinctured with philosophy, there is no place for grief, anxiety, or superfluous vexations.
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Not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient; for he that is so, wants nothing.
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A wise man gives way to tears in some cases, and cannot avoid them in others.
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The ostentation of grief is many times more than the grief itself.
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A false and a childish sorrow is appeased with as false and as childish a revenge.
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Beside, that the ills which he fears he may suffer, he suffers in the very fear of them.
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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet every body fools us out of it that has a mind to it.
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Anger is not only a vice, but a vice point-blank against nature, for it divides instead of joining