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Men learn while they teach.

Seneca the Younger

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Although Care Long Men
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
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
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
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Conscience Foundation Joy True
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge

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