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Men learn while they teach.

Seneca the Younger

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Deed Punishment Wickedness
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
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
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
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
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
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
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start

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