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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

Seneca the Younger

No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
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
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
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
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Happiness Inspirational Laughter
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
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
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
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning

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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