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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.

Seneca the Younger

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Independence Step Treatment
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Christian Emotion Give Men
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Brave Joy Laughing True
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
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Genius Madness Mixtures
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
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
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
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
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul

He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.

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