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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.

Seneca the Younger

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Foundation Moderation Unstable
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
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 young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise

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