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" There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse. "
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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" 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 abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. "
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