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Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.
Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.
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Slavery holds few men fast the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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