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

Seneca the Younger

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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Door Find Men Open
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise

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