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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.
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Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.
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Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.
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Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
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The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Necessity is stronger than duty.
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The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.
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A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life they live badly who always begin to live.
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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Every guilty person is his own hangman.
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The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.
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The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure if any one returns it, that is clear gain if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.
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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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It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.
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Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.
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