In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.


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The happier the moment the shorter.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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In wine, there's truth.
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With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will...
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Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: ...
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Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. [Lat., Majores fertilissiu...
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It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate sk...
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That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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His only fault is that he has no fault.
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Home is where the heart is.
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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
CATO THE ELDER
Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
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If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
CATO THE ELDER
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
CATO THE ELDER
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
CATO THE ELDER
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fool...
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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
CATO THE ELDER
Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
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Even though work stops, expenses run on.
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An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
CATO THE ELDER
Lighter is the wound foreseen.
CATO THE ELDER
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
CATO THE ELDER
Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
CATO THE ELDER
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE ELDER
Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
CATO THE ELDER
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
CATO THE ELDER
Carthage must be destroyed.
CATO THE ELDER
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CATO THE ELDER
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
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SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Life is warfare.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
If you wish to be loved; Love!
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
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SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its ow...
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That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the pres...
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Time discovered truth.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of ap...
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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
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The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The f...
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse our...
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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradual...
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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
A great fortune is a great slavery.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
He who is brave is free.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compell...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to ...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no gra...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they a...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than extern...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courag...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Where the fear is, happiness is not.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
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I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes uns...
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There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
What once were vices are manners now.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happ...
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Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which i...
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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable di...
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He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then ...
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude -- confidence in self.
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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
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He has committed the crime who profits by it.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secre...
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Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitud...
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A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
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Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.
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No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they emb...
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Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are u...
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
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Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
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Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?
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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting e...
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He that does good to another does good also to himself.
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It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right ...
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but whe...
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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
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For greed all nature is too little.
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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
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It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man...
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See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
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