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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Seneca the Younger

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
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
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Feel Philosophical Real
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
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.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
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
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
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Inspirational Success Tattoo
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
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

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