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To the stars through difficulties.
Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Lucio Anneo Seneca
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He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
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I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes and this may be done by moderate desires.
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Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
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The wish for healing has always been half of health.
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Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.
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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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The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.
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