FastSaying
He who prefers to give to Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half
Marcus Aurelius
Wishes
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You pursue, I fly; you fly, I pursue; such is my humor. What you wish, Dondymus, I do not wish, what you do not wish, I do.
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Come, Caesar, even by night - let stars delay; If thou but come, thy folk will find it day
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Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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