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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

Seneca the Younger

Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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God Heard Life Men
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Adversity Brave Men
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
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Desire Judge Persuade Sin
After death there is nothing.
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After Death Life Nothing
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Admire Guide Speak
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Fortune Mankind Someone Unconquer
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Assuming Honor Men
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

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