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The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
Seneca the Younger
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A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
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Simple is the language of truth.
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Dissembling profiteth nothing a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.
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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
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Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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