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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Seneca the Younger

No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
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
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Favor Silent Speak
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
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Beforehand Come Foresight Present
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Happiness Leisure Vice
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

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