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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Seneca the Younger

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Relaxation Stronger
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Men Number Slavery
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
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
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admirer Praise Provoke
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Help May Need
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
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well

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