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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.

Seneca the Younger

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
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
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
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Evil Shine Wicked
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well

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