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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.

Seneca the Younger

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Freedom Wisdom Wise
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Anticipation Expectations Miserable
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Color Life Mastery Wisdom
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
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
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Courage Men World
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Fidelity Prosperity

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