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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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Life is a navigation; we are perpetually wallowing and dashing one against another; sometimes we suffer shipwreck, but we are always in danger and in expectation of it.
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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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Beside, that the ills which he fears he may suffer, he suffers in the very fear of them.
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Can there be any man so fearful, that had not rather fall once than hang always in suspense?
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How many casualties and difficulties are there that we dread as insupportable mischiefs, which, upon farther thoughts, we find to be mercies and benefits?
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If we do not watch, we lose our opportunities; if we do not make haste, we are left behind; our best hours escape us, the worst are to come.