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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.

Seneca the Younger

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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open

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