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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. Kim, Age 11 -Seneca.

We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep for.

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Light troubles speak; immense troubles are silent.

He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.

Every change of place becomes a delight.

Those vices are vices of men, not of the times. , non temporum.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

What were once vices are the fashion of the day.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.