Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
belief man
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
rights man
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
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The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man.. It is more powerful than external circumstances.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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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