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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

Seneca the Younger

Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
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
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
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
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Affection Coal Squares
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement

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