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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)

Seneca the Younger

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Home Life Short Spiritual
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person

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