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There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.
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For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.
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The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.
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But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.
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Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.
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There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
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If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.
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Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.
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No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.
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