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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

Seneca the Younger

When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
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
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Arches Fall Inspiration
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Inspirational Success Tattoo
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Air Breath Deep Spirit
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Arrange Given Law Way

He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

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