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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

Seneca the Younger

It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Happiness Inspirational Laughter
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life

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