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- Seneca: Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
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Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
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That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
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What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.
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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
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A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
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