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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.

Seneca the Younger

It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
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
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.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
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
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
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Benefit Letter Together

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