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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.

Seneca the Younger

Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
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
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
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
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary
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
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Down Hand Let Pit
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Feel Philosophical Real

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