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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.

Seneca the Younger

Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
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
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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God Turn Void Work
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Benefit Giver Mind
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
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace

What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.

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