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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Seneca the Younger

What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Evil Shine Wicked
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Friend Friendship Necessarily
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
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
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Love Military Soldier

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