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A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.

~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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All cruelty springs from weakness.

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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

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No man was ever wise by chance.

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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

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We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

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A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

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No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

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Biography

Nationality: Roman

Type: Statesman

Born: Unknown

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