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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Seneca the Younger

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
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
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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Companion Good Satisfaction
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
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Happiness Life Money
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
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
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice

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