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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.

Seneca the Younger

If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
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
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
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
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught
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
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
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
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Dresses Fear Number
Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Inhuman Revenge World
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think

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