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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

Seneca the Younger

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If you wish to be loved, love.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Every journey has an end.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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