

“A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.”
― Moral Essays: Volume III
― Moral Essays: Volume III

“We should every night call ourselves to an account;
What infirmity have I mastered today?
What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.”
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What infirmity have I mastered today?
What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.”
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“Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool ”
― Moral Essays: Volume I De Providentia. De Constantia. De Ira. De Clementia
― Moral Essays: Volume I De Providentia. De Constantia. De Ira. De Clementia
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