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For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

~Frederic William Farrar

Topics: Accused Although Been Being Charge Claim Considered Drunkenness Established Gambling Had He His Laid Learned Man Only Sins Some Successfully Were Worse

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No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

~Frederic William Farrar

Topics: Eternity He Man Pass

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Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

~Frederic William Farrar

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There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

~Frederic William Farrar

Topics: Be True Best Failure Knows Life Only Possible Real True

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Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.

~Frederic William Farrar

Topics: Again Became Before Died Extinct Father Generation Granted Great Great Men He Hear His Know Like Line Many Men Prayer Probable Second Whether

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There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.

~Frederic William Farrar

Topics: Brother Caesar Consequently Emperor Great Late Living Name Palace Time Uncle Whose

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The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.

~Frederic William Farrar

Topics: Banished Decision Guilt His Innocence Island Judges Little Man Question Senate Sentence Should Very Worth

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Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

~Frederic William Farrar

Topics: Before Brings Philosophers Picture Scholars School Us Various Vividly

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If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

~Frederic William Farrar

Topics: Amuse Ever Far Idiot Laugh Look Myself Want

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But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

~Frederic William Farrar

Topics: Character Come Every Every Man Far Influences Life Man Medium More Penetrating Real Schools Teachers Than Those Through Which

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Theologian

Born: Unknown

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