It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Seneca the Younger
No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
life man
Of course, however, the living voice and the intimacy of a common life will help you more than the written word. You must go to the scene of action, first, because men put more faith in their eyes than in their ears, and second, because the way is long if one follows precepts, but short and helpful, if one follows patterns.
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Arms observe no bounds; nor can the wrath of the sword, once drawn, be easily checked or stayed; war delights in blood.
war
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
men war
Worse than war is the very fear of war.
Tis the first art of kings, the power to suffer hate.
power art
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
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Everywhere means nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
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The much occupied man has no time for wantonness, and it is an obvious commonplace that the evils of leisure can be shaken off by hard work.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
death
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he gives and receives praise.
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man
Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.
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A trifling debt makes a man your debtor; a large one makes him an enemy.
Man is a reasoning animal.
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