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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

Seneca the Younger

Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Benefit Birthday Done
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Fault Impetuosity Youth
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
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
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
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Christian Emotion Give Men
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom

Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

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