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Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.
Seneca the Younger
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We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.
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As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves
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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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Simple is the language of truth.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
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Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.
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