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It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Simple is the language of truth.
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When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.
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It's in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.
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Man is a reasoning Animal.
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He who is everywhere is nowhere.
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Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
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To the believers it is true.
To the wise it is false.
To the leaders it is useful. — Seneca The Younger
To the wise it is false.
To the leaders it is useful. — Seneca The Younger
How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?
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The Germans, a race eager for war.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Mercy often inflicts death.
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People do not die - they kill themselves.
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No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.
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Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
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I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Abstinence is easier than temperance.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds ...
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We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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There is no power greater than true affection.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Fear drives the wretched to prayer
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Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.
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He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
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What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
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Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.
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Know thyself; this is the great object.
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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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That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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What you think is the summit is only a step up
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It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
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Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.
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Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.
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He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
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However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
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If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.
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The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.
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The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est.
The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death. — Seneca The Younger
The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death. — Seneca The Younger
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.
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As was his language so was his life.
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Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.
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The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.
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There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
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If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.
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Money has never yet made anyone rich.
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Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.
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It is opportunity that makes the thief.
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He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.
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A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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Every change of place becomes a delight.
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Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
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Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.
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Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
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Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
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Wisdom comes to no one by chance.
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Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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It is for the superfluous we sweat.
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Forgive that you may be forgiven.
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Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you
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You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.
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It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
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There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.
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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Apples taste sweetest when they're going.
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Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.
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When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.
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Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
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To meditate an injury is to commit one.
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Everything may happen.
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The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
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