A human being will accept the strictest disciplinary measures with a better grace if he knows that they will fall with equal severity on his neighbor. Justice in some mysterious way makes up for violence. Beware of Pity
He only is anxious about the future, to whom the present is unprofitable. Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
How singular is the thing called pleasure, and how curiously related to pain, which might be thought to be the opposite of it; for they never come to a man together, and yet he who pursues either of them is generally compelled to take the other. They are two, and yet they grow together out of one head or stem. The Trials Of Socrates
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does. Emma
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