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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.

Seneca the Younger

Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Atheist Religious Wise
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Happiness Life People
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Death Dying Wonder
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Evil Real Suffering
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

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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