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No one can have all he desires.
Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Lucio Anneo Seneca
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
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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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