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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca the Younger

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
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
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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