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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

Seneca the Younger

You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
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
Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Generation Humanity Passion
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 another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment 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
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
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
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
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Element Madness Talent

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

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