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

Seneca the Younger

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

Heard Side Well
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Admire Guide Speak
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
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Door Find Men Open
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Necessary Peace Vanquish Wish
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fall Wisdom
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
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
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Educational Schoolroom Taught
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Adversity Failure Happiness
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bestnow Kindness Recieve

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

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