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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

Seneca the Younger

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Number Slavery
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Choice Dressing Practice Window
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bear Matter Things
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Affection Coal Squares
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Love Rule
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Escape Necessity Overcoming
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Awareness Feels Safety Self
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Master Slave Tyranny
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Blow Thinking
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Applaude Causes Proof
The part of life which we really live is short.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Part Really Short
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Affection Coal Squares
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dread Fear Much Unfit
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ashame Master Servitude
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fate Men Wish

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