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

Seneca the Younger

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fear Thing Think
Life without literary studies is death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Life Literature Study
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Book Mind Together
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Education Men Teacher
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Color Life Mastery Wisdom
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beforehand Come Foresight Present
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cures Fail Reason
Life is long if you know how to use it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Long Use
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophical Pilot Storm
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Thrown Ungrateful
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Director Teacher Vice
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Friend Friendship Necessarily
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Benefit Letter Together
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dresses Fear Number
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Element Madness Talent
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Awareness Feels Safety Self

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