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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.

Seneca the Younger

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
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
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Inspirational Success Tattoo
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Wisdom Wise
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman

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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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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