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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

Seneca the Younger

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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
If you judge, investigate.
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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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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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