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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
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If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.
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A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
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It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.
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Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing.
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Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.
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All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.
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It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.
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Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!
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Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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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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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.
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I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.
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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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