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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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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.
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A favor is to a grateful man delightful always to an ungrateful man only once.
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Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself for every guilty person is his own hangman.
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The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
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All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.
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So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.
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