Roman - Statesman | 5 BC - 65 AD
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
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No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
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He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
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