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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

Seneca the Younger

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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
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We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur
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Injustice never rules forever.
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A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
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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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Simple is the language of truth.
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.
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