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Shining Quotes - Page 40

Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death?

Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.131, Enhanced Media Publishing

The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.

Lydia Howard Sigourney (1841). “Letters to young ladies”, p.175