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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.

Seneca the Younger

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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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