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True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
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If you wished to be loved, love.
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The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
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He who is brave is free.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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If you would judge, understand.
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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
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I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca