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It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen; this law is universal to the whole human race.

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The whole world would have been destroyed if compassion did not put an end to anger.

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Some laws are not written, but are more decisive than any written law.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Seneca the Elder

Seneca the Elder

Born: 54 BC
Died: 39 AD (aged 93)
Bio: Marcus Annaeus Seneca, known as Seneca the Elder and Seneca the Rhetorician, was a Roman rhetorician and writer, born of a wealthy equestrian family of Cordoba, Hispania.

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