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Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures. (Seneca)
People do not care how nobly they live, only how long, despite the fact that it is within everyone's reach to live nobly, but within no one's reach to live long. View quote
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The best ideas are common property. View quote
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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is. View quote
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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. View quote
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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly. View quote
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You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself. View quote
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. View quote
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A great fortune is a great slavery. View quote
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. View quote
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Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die. (Seneca)
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. View quote
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That man lives badly who does not know how to die well. View quote
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That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away. View quote
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You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate. View quote
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned. View quote
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No man was ever wise by chance. View quote
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Live among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening. View quote
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Man is a reasoning Animal. View quote
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The shortest way to wealth is through the contempt of wealth. View quote
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The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company. (Seneca)
Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms. View quote
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Old age is an incurable disease. View quote
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it. View quote
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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing. View quote
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