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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.

Seneca the Younger

What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
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
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Believe Birthday Happiness
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Blame Giving Judgement Speak
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken

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