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Men learn while they teach.

Seneca the Younger

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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Character Crooked Need
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
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
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Learn Teacher Vices
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Blame Giving Judgement Speak
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Causes Grieve Sorrow
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Changed Investing Situation
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Desire Men Nature Return
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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