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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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To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.
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There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living there is nothing harder to learn.
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Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
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He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
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The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.
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This life is only a prelude to eternity.
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You talk one way, you live another.
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There is no genius free from some tincture of madness
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He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.
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It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
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