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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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Seneca the Younger
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Man is a reasoning Animal.
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Principles are like seeds they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.
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Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.
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Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
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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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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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There's no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Every guilty person is his own hangman.
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I would rather be sick than idle.
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There is no genius free from some tincture of madness
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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We pardon familiar vices.
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Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.
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