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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca the Younger

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
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
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 thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
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
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature

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