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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.

Seneca the Younger

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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Error First Step
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Know Modesty Return
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Humble Men Poverty
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Efficacious Example Good Tedious
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
Successful villany is called virtue.
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Successful Villany Virtue
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Dignity Easier Grow Start
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
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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