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He who does not wish to die cannot have wished to live. (Seneca)
[Mucius] might have accomplished something more successful in that camp, but never anything more brave. View quote
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You will thus understand that what you fear is either insignificant or short-lived. View quote
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Lay hold of today's task, and you will not need to depend so much upon tomorrow's. While we are postponing, life speeds by. View quote
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If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes, train him before it comes. View quote
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Prove your words by your deeds. View quote
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. View quote
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I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man. View quote
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The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns. View quote
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No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to. View quote
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. (Seneca)
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people. View quote
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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand. View quote
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I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene. View quote
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I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open? View quote
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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more. View quote
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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company. View quote
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No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it. View quote
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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. View quote
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To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power. View quote
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Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough. (Seneca)
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue. View quote
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It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin. View quote
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A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty. View quote
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A great mind becomes a great fortune. View quote
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