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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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On Live (To):
The part of life which we really live is short
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On Hope:
All things are to be hoped by a man as long as he is alive
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On Necessity:
It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity
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On Glory:
He knows that the man is overcome ingloriously, who is overcome without danger
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On Virtue:
Virtue withers away if it has no opposition
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On Disgrace:
Calamity is virtue's opportunity
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On Injury:
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself
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On Sin:
We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms
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On Knowledge:
Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself
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On Age:
No age is shut against great genius
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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