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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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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.
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Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
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All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.
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For greed, all nature is too little.
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I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes and this may be done by moderate desires.
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Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.
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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.
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It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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