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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

Seneca the Younger

The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
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
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
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
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
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
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Brave Joy Laughing True
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
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
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
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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