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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.

Seneca the Younger

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
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
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
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
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
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
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write

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