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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.

Seneca the Younger

It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Happiness Life Money
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
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
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
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness

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