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Seneca the Younger

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
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
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
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
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 hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
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
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise

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