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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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On Dignity:
Dignity increases more easily than it begins
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On Conversation:
Men's conversation is like their life
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On Goodness:
It is not goodness to be better than the very worst
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On Friendship:
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures
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On Perseverance:
A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment
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On Love:
Better to have loved and lost, than not to have loved at all
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On Vice:
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times
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On Truth:
The language of truth is simple
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On Freedom:
No man is free who is a slave to the flesh
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On Teaching:
Men learn while they teach
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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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