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What is true belongs to me!
Seneca the Younger
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
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Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.
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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
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The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
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Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
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Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.
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Home joys are blessed of heaven.
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