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Seneca the Younger
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We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
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Self-denial is the best riches.
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To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superior, mad with an inferior, degrading.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
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He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
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A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
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It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.
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A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
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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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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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