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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.

Seneca the Younger

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Believe Birthday Happiness
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
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
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 first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
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
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Steer Talk Vessel

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