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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

Seneca the Younger

Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Know Modesty Return
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Goal Men Wind
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dread Fear Much Unfit
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Kindness Life
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?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Speech View
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Law Name Successful
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Deed Punishment Wickedness

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