You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

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It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

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This is the reason we cannot complain of lifeit keeps no one against his wll.

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Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let speech harmonize with life.

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Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

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Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. - Epistulae ad Lucilium

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It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

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He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another. - Hercules Furens

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Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

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