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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Seneca the Younger

Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
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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Infidelity Men Wife
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
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
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle

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