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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

Seneca the Younger

In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Men Thrown Ungrateful
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Home Life Short Spiritual
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
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
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life

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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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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