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

Seneca the Younger

There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Delight Help Others Support
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Grace Judge Pain
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Evil Shine Wicked
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
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Foundation Joy True Vex
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Home Life Short Spiritual
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Inspirational Mind Peace
No crime has been without a precedent.
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Crime Precedent Prison
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Adversity Dawn Philosophical

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