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Seneca the Younger Quotes: The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?
         

The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?


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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.



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