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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

Seneca the Younger

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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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