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We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur

Seneca the Younger

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Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it
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Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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The willing, destiny guides them the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift to many it has been a favor.
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That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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A good mind possesses a kingdom.
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The man who does something under orders is not unhappy he is unhappy who does something against his will.
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He who fears from near at hand often fears less.
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A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
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Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
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Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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... frugality makes a poor man rich.
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Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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