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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.

Seneca the Younger

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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Counsel Grief Light People
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Emotion Matter More Person
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
If you judge, investigate.
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Judge Philosophical Umpire
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Down Hand Let Pit
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Feel Philosophical Real

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