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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

Seneca the Younger

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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Infidelity Men Wife
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Friend Friendship Necessarily
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
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
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
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men

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