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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

Seneca the Younger

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
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Infidelity Men Wife
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
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Lying Money Political
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
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
As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Learn Live Long
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.
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Affection Coal Squares
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Distance Inspire Life
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Learn Success Wisdom
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Charity Disclose Office
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Enough Language Truth

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

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