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Time discovers truth.
Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living there is nothing harder to learn.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.
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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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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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He will live ill who does not know how to die well.
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The voice is nothing but beaten air.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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What you think is the summit is only a step up
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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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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The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.
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Everything may happen.
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Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.
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One hand washes the other.
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