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It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Nemo tam divos habuit faventes, Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri. Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.
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Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
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Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
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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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