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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Seneca the Younger

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Blame Giving Judgement Speak
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
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
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Down Hand Let Pit
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

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