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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts

Seneca the Younger

There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fall Wisdom
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
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 has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
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
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
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical
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
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light

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