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

Seneca the Younger

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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
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
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Dread Fear Much Unfit
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
Men learn while they teach.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth

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