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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

Seneca the Younger

Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
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
To the stars through difficulties.
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Difficulty Live Stars
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
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath
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
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Blame Giving Judgement Speak

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