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Seneca the Younger

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Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.
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Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.
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You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.
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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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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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Modesty forbids what the law does not.
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Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.
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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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The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.
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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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I would rather be sick than idle.
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The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today
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No man ever became wise by chance.
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He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
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He who fears from near at hand often fears less.
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To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superior, mad with an inferior, degrading.
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The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
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Know thyself this is the great object.
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Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.
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