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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

Seneca the Younger

Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Life without literary studies is death.
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Death Life Literature Study
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Although Care Long Men
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
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
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Liberal Philosophical Trust
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Brave Joy Laughing True
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
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

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