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Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.
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No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
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Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.
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Whom they have injured they also hate.
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Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.
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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
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Every change of place becomes a delight.
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He who begs timidly courts a refusal.
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You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.
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Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
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He who is brave is free.
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He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.
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A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty
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He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.
Seneca the Younger
Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.
Seneca the Younger
