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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)

Seneca the Younger

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
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
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
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Addiction Life Positive Thinking
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious

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