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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Nemo tam divos habuit faventes, Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri. Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Time discovers truth.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?
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All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.
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We pardon familiar vices.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue the good become the slaves of the wicked might makes right fear silences the power of the law.
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Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
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