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Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.
Seneca the Younger
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A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.
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He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.
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