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Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seneca the Younger
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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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Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.
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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.
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A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
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If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.
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Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.
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It is not how many books thou hast, but how good careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.
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Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
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Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time
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To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
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He who is brave is free.
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
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Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.
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