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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

Seneca the Younger

The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Color Life Mastery Wisdom
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
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish

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