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After death there is nothing.

Seneca the Younger

Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth

After death there is nothing.

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