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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

Seneca the Younger

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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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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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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
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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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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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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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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