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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

Seneca the Younger

Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Blow Thinking
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Knowledge Learning Love
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Greatness Men Piece
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Land Travel World
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Remember Suffer Sweet
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
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
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress

Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

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