It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
peace home character
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
trials man
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
man
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
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.
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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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.
faults man
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
greatness frailty man
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.
rights plans man
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
liberty man
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man.. It is more powerful than external circumstances.
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