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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca the Younger

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
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Evil Real Suffering
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
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
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
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
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful

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