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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Seneca the Younger

All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Conscience Foundation Joy True
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
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Admire Praise Provoking
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Gratitude Profit Virtue
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Give Judgement
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Affection Coal Squares
He who has great power should use it lightly.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Philosophical Vision
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Ancestry Brag Descent
Injustice never rules forever.
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Forever Injustice Justice
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

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