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Revenge is an inhuman word.

Seneca the Younger

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Color Life Mastery Wisdom
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
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
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Heal Inspirational Reason
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational

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