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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.

Seneca the Younger

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
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
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
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
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
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Feel Philosophical Real
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices

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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