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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.

Seneca the Younger

The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Conscience Foundation Joy True
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
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
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Mingle Wise
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars

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