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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

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational 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
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
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

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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