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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

Seneca the Younger

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Example Luxury Mischief People
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Justice May Philosophical
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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heavy Oneself Servitude
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Conquer Kindness Recognise

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