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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

Seneca the Younger

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
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Inspiration Life Part Short Success
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
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
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece

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