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Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.
Seneca the Younger
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Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.
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The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
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Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.
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Lack of desire is the greatest riches.
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To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
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A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
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Time is the greatest remedy for anger.
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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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We pardon familiar vices.
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Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.
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Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.
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Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?
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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
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No man was ever wise by chance.
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