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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.

Seneca the Younger

True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Drunkenness People Vices
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
He who is brave is free.
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Bravery Freedom Reality
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Mind Relaxation Stronger
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Country Emotion Land Law People Person
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares

If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.

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