When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
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Light troubles speak immense troubles are silent.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field it has now come to this - that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let speech harmonize with life.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself Miserable is he who slights that witness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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