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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

We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Friend Friendship Necessarily
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
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.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
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
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle

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