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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

Seneca the Younger

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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
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Courage Perseverance Sowing
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Conscience Foundation Joy True
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Knowledge Learning Love
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Emotion Goes Hold Love True
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
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
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Evil Real Suffering
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
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.
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Affection Coal Squares
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Wise

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