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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.

Seneca the Younger

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
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
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
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
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Although Care Long Men
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
Every journey has an end.
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End Goal Journey
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
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven

Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.

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