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Be harsh with yourself at times.
Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
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