Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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- Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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- The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
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