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| Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. |
(Seneca)
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| What once were vices are manners now. |
(Seneca)
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| Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. |
(Seneca)
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| Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. |
(Seneca)
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| Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one. |
(Seneca)
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| The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one. |
(Seneca)
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| It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. |
(Seneca)
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| While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned. |
(Seneca)
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| There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness. |
(Seneca)
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| I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. |
(Seneca)
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| Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. |
(Seneca)
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| One should count each day a separate life. |
(Seneca)
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| It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted. |
(Seneca)
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| He will live ill who does not know how to die well. |
(Seneca)
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| If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him. |
(Seneca)
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| If virtue precede us every step will be safe. |
(Seneca)
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| It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity. |
(Seneca)
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| It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence. |
(Seneca)
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| It is pleasant at times to play the madman. |
(Seneca)
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| It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant. |
(Seneca)
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