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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.

Seneca the Younger

Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Active Employment Vice
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Anger Blow Thinking
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Life Shortness Waste
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Invites Refusal Request
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Health Inside Love People
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures

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