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" It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. "
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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" A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand. "
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" Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. "
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" The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances. "
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" The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin. "
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" It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. "
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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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" Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find. "
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" All cruelty springs from weakness. "
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" Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. "
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" A great mind becomes a great fortune. "
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" It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores. "
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" In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. "
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" Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. "
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" Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last. "
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" Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. "
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" Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. "
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" Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. "
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