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No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
Seneca the Younger
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True praise comes often even to the lowly false praise only to the strong.
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He will live ill who does not know how to die well.
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Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift to many it has been a favor.
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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 fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.
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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
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While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
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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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When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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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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Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.
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No man ever became wise by chance.
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Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
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There is no genius free from some tincture of madness
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