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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.
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He who fears from near at hand often fears less.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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