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He is most powerful who governs himself.
Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.
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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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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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I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes and this may be done by moderate desires.
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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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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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You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope for hope is accompanied by fear.
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It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.
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This body is not a home, but an inn and that only for a short time.
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It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.
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The profit on a good action is to have done it.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Whom they have injured they also hate.
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He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.
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