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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

Seneca the Younger

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
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Happiness Life Money
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
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
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
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
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught
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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Assuming Honor Men
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
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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