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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Frederic William Farrar Quote
“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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