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Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.
Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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the Younger Seneca
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
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Simple is the language of truth.
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It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
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He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.
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Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.
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All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.
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The profit on a good action is to have done it.
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Other men's sins are before our eyes our own are behind our backs.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
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That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
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The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
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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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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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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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