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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

Seneca the Younger

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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
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
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Arm Denial Hero Self
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
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

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