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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

Seneca the Younger

How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Love Military Soldier
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
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
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
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
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness

Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

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