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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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He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.
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To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.
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Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.
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Home joys are blessed of heaven.
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It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.
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Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.
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It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.
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If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
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We learn not for life but for the debating-room.
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Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.
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Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.
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To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superior, mad with an inferior, degrading.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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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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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.
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Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death a thousand doors open on to it.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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