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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

Seneca the Younger

There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Character Crooked Need
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind

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