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

Seneca the Younger

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Knowledge Learning Love
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
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
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue

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