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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

Seneca the Younger

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Epileptic Precaution Regard
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Crime Philosophical Prison
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Men Remember Tolerance
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
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Mingle Wise
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
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
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Inspirational Life Wise
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

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