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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Seneca the Younger

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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Best Friend Inspirational Life Prayer
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
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
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Despise Hate Hateful
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
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
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Numbers Peril Slavery
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
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
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Friend Friendship Necessarily
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Secret Tedious Truth
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Desire Forgiveness Inhuman
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Ad Death Journey Life
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
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
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Leadership Philosophical Vision
Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Harsh Reflection Sin

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