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No man ever became wise by chance.
Seneca the Younger
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There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.
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Nemo tam divos habuit faventes, Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri. Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.
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Dissembling profiteth nothing a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.
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He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.
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