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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.

Seneca the Younger

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

God Superstitions Worship
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Compact Made Poverty Rich
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Book Mind Together
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Joy Men
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Leisure Praying
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Life Money
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Darkness Mind Prosperity
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Matter Think Unblest
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Admire Praise Provoking
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Arm Denial Hero Self
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Pain Release

No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.

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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.

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