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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Seneca the Younger

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Home Life Short Spiritual
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men Prompt
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Brave Joy Laughing True
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
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
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Inspirational Success Tattoo
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
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
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
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
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

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