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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.

Seneca the Younger

Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Air Breath Deep Spirit
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
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
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
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
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
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return

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