It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
Seneca
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
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Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
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No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
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It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die
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The sun also shines on the wicked
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Life is neither a good nor an evil: it is a field for good and evil
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