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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

Seneca the Younger

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Dream People Vice
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Delight Difficulty Remind
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
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Cultivation Culture May Mind
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Law People Retirement
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Give Inspirational Men
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Leadership Philosophical Vision
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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End Inspirational Way
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Addiction Life Positive Thinking
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 by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Benefit Letter Together
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window

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