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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.

Seneca the Younger

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
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
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
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Addiction Life Positive Thinking
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
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
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
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

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