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Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
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Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
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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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Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.
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The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.
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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself.
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It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life they live badly who always begin to live.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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