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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.

Seneca the Younger

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Greed Luxury Madness Peace
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
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
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Escape Necessity Overcoming
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Heart Think View
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
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
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
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Gratitude Profit Virtue
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Courage Fear Heaven
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Death Forward Life Look Past
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
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Anxiety Leisure Praying

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