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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

Seneca the Younger

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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Steer Talk Vessel
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
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
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Fate Guilt Guilty
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Acknowledge Inspirational Thank
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
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
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
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
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Feel Philosophical Real
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Men Outcome War
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Blessed Blessing Confidence
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Depress Mind Quality
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Inspiration Life Part Short Success
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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