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

Seneca the Younger

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Help Our Please Word
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Allay Counsel Grief Light
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Matter Think Unblest
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Accept Condonement Genius Measure
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Bear Matter Things
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
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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Ignorant Life Soul
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
The part of life which we really live is short.
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Life Part Really Short
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Humanity Philosophy Unhappy
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Hear More Nobody Repeat
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Philosophy Plato Science

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