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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.

Seneca the Younger

In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
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
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Made Own Progress
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
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
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard

To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.

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