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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

Seneca the Younger

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
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
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Independence Step Treatment
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue

Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

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