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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law

Seneca the Younger

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Law People Retirement

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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
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
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Benefit Birthday Done
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
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Happiness Life Money
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Although Care Long Men
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing

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