Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPersistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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