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• To wish well is part of becoming well. -- Seneca
• Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.
  -- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part ii, Sect. 2, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1...
• A great fortune is a great slavery. -- Seneca
• We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -- Seneca
• There is a great difference between not wishing to do evil and not knowing how. -- Seneca
• In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of.
  In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of....
• If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. -- Frederick the Grea
• In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing
  in democracies it is the ONLY sacred thing. -- Anatole France...
• Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the laws.
  -- Solo...