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I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better than the bad.

Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present. Thus it is that foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is transformed into a curse.

Letters to Lucilius V

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.
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Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.
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Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honorable.
To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.
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