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To govern was to serve, not to rule.

Seneca the Younger

The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
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
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices

To govern was to serve, not to rule.

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