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To rule yourself is the ultimate power
Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Lucio Anneo Seneca
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
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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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Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
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Life is long if it is full.
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There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living there is nothing harder to learn.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.
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The more violent the storm the sooner it is over.
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Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
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People pay the doctor for his trouble for his kindness they still remain in his debt.
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It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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