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

Seneca the Younger

The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Destiny Drag Guides
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Air Breath Deep Spirit
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greed Luxury Madness Peace
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Hatred Men Revenge
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Dying Wonder
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Advice Body Disease
After death there is nothing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

After Death Life Nothing
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
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Chance Hatred Wrath
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Add Another Day Time
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learn Teacher Vices
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Joy Men
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Blow Thinking
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Choices Little Struggle
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Delight Help Others Support

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

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