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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law

Seneca the Younger

Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Inspiration Life Part Short Success
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
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
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Amendment Arms Bearing Gun
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Anger Give Judgement
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Adversity Appreciation Inspirational Life
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Future Happiness Life

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