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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Seneca the Younger

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
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
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
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
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Love Military Soldier
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
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
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
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
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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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

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