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

Seneca the Younger

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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
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
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need

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