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Seneca, 65 AD


Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Bible


The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Seneca


To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

Augusta Jane Evans


Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

Alyssa Fritch


Today is here yesterday is gone and tommorow never comes.

Henry Steele Commager


Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Isaac Watts


Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

Jane Austen


Oh do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Marquis de Sade


Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

Cornelius Tacitus


It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

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