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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Seneca the Younger

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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
Men learn while they teach.
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