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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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Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.
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A good mind possesses a kingdom.
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It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
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Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.
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A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
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Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift to many it has been a favor.
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I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.
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It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
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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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So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.
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The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
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Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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That which takes effect by chance is not an art.
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