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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

Seneca the Younger

Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Independence Step Treatment
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Inspirational Men Wise
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.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Men Stores Use
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
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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First Give Prudence Science
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
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

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

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