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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

The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
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
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law

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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