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There's no delight in owning anything unshared.
Seneca the Younger
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Nemo tam divos habuit faventes, Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri. Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
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The fortune of war is always doubtful.
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If you live according to nature, you never will be poor if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
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Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself for every guilty person is his own hangman.
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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.
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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.
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All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.
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The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
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