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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.

Seneca the Younger

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
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Advice Body Disease
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Compact Made Poverty Rich
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Beneficial Delightful Read
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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Friend Friendship Necessarily
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Good Innocence Law
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Death Known Lying Well
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
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
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heart Think View

Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.

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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.

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