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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

Seneca the Younger

What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
Life without literary studies is death.
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Death Life Literature Study
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Color Life Mastery Wisdom
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy

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