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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Seneca the Younger

The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Independence Step Treatment
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Fear Living Terrify Unknown Worth
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Benefit Birthday Done
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
Men learn while they teach.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step

One crime has to be concealed by another.

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