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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.

Seneca the Younger

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Perseverance Sowing
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Distress Fellow Man
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Conquer Kindness Recognise
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
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
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blessed Blessing Confidence
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window

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