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If we do not watch, we lose our opportunities; if we do not make haste, we are left behind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Day's Collacon
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Respect of parents curbs the spirit and restrains vices.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Day's Collacon
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Retirement without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Day's Collacon
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Reputation is a great inheritance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Day's Collacon
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Neither was a law able to be imposed on the falling rain, that they should not water and overflow the fields of the wicked and unjust.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Day's Collacon
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Day's Collacon
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If thou would estimate thyself, put away wealth, land, honors; scrutinize thyself within.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Day's Collacon
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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively; strive to get clear notions about all; give up no science entirely, for science is but one.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Day's Collacon
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Examine each individual, and consider the whole world, and you will find that there is no man's life that is not aiming at tomorrow.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Day's Collacon
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Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Day's Collacon
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The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Day's Collacon
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Loyalty that is bought with money, may be overcome by money.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Day's Collacon
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There is nothing so wretched and foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness to expect evil before it arrives.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Day's Collacon
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If anger is not restrained, it is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Day's Collacon
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Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Day's Collacon
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He who is everywhere is nowhere.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
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Those who live for hope alone find that the immediate future always slips from their grasp.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
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He whose daily life has been a rounded whole, is easy in his mind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
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One who daily puts the finishing touches on his life is never in want of time.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
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He who is brave is free.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
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