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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

Seneca the Younger

His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Betray Faces Guilt
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
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
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
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
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
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
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof

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