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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.

Seneca the Younger

Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Idea Men Work Write
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Appreciation Gratitude Struggle
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
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Inspirational Life Wisdom
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginnings Life New Spring
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation
The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Evil Shine Wicked
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity

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