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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

Seneca the Younger

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Conclusion Justice May Side
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happiness Men Powerful
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Compact Made Poverty Rich
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Dawn Expectation Night
When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Ambition Limit Progress
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Destiny Fate Inspirational
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Attack Blow Revenge Wise
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Color Life Mastery Wisdom
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
Time discovers truth.
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Discover Life Time Truth
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship

Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

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