"Real improvement is of slow growth only."
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"For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold."
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"Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)"
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"Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?""
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"There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn."
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"What else is nature but God?"
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"True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind."
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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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"Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary."
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"Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most."
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"The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host."
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"Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow."
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"Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position."
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"Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself."
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"This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time."
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"A troubled countenance oft discloses much."
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"A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will come when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them."
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"The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent."
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"The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest."
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"Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum."
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