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While crime is punished it yet increases.

Seneca the Younger

Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Blow Thinking
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Remember Tolerance
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Air Breath Deep Spirit
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men
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
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
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
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Emotion Goes Hold Love True

While crime is punished it yet increases.

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