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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Seneca the Younger

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Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
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It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.
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Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.
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Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.
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