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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
Seneca the Younger
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Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seneca the Younger
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A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
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Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.
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The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.
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Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.
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