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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

Seneca the Younger

It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
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
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Home Life Short Spiritual
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Color Life Mastery Wisdom
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Hatred Men Revenge
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
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
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success

Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

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