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We learn not for life but for the debating-room.
Seneca the Younger
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Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
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The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.
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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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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.
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Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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... frugality makes a poor man rich.
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There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Other men's sins are before our eyes our own are behind our backs.
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A troubled countenance oft discloses much.
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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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You roll my log, and I will roll yours.
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Know thyself this is the great object.
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Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.
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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
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