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We learn not for life but for the debating-room.
Seneca the Younger
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The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today
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It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Man is a social animal.
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No one can have all he desires.
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The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.
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He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.
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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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While we teach, we learn.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
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There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living there is nothing harder to learn.
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Other men's sins are before our eyes our own are behind our backs.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
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The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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There is no genius free from some tincture of madness
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