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When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

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Friendship, Eye, Tears

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

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Revenge, Men, Hatred

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

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Death, Anger, Philosophical
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

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Philosophical, Mindfulness, Today
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

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Grief, Philosophical, Men
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

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Artist, Painting, Pleasure

Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.

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Thanksgiving, Sky, Earth

We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

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Life, Sight, Blood

As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves

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Struggle, Men, Mind

It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.

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Life, Evil, Company

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

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Men, Medicine, Sick
Epistulae ad Lucilium CIV

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

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Science, Giving, Firsts
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

No crime has been without a precedent.

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Prison, Crime, Precedent
"Hippolytus, DLIV". DLIV, 1st century.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

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Prison, Crime, Increase
"Thyestes". XXXI, 1st century.

Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.

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Inspirational, Life, Play

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.

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Book, Doe, Matter

No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

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Thinking, Climbing, Peaceful
Epistulae ad Lucilium IV

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.

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Justice, May, Sides

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

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Eye, Men, Judging
"On the Happy Life". Essay by Seneca the Younger, 58 AD.

I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.

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Inspirational, Ashamed, Ifs
"On Tranquility of Mind" by Seneca the Younger,

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

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Greed, Littles, Persons

Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.

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Repeats

If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.

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Time, Add, Another Day

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

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Poverty, Rich, Made
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

Seneca the Younger
Attitude, Mind, Principles

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