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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

Seneca the Younger

The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Love Military Soldier
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
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
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 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
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Down Hand Let Pit
Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World

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