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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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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
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Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
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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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A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
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Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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A man who has taken your time recognises no debt yet it is the one he can never repay.
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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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Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
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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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