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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

Seneca the Younger

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Despise Hate Hateful
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.
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Book Mind Together
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
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Life Poison Sweet
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Choice Dressing Practice Window
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Accord Deed Highest Proof Word
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom
Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin Close End Time
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Master Slave Tyranny
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Foundation Moderation Unstable
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
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
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Everybody Friend Life Own
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Learner Library Wander
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Avarice Need Poverty
One hand washes the other.
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Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Goal Management Planning
Men learn while they teach.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Country Emotion People Person World
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.
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Hatred Men Revenge
Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Life Long Use
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Bird Cheerfully Hand Men
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Add Another Day Time

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

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