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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.
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True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution
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There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Man is a reasoning Animal.
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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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No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.
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No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.
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Everything hangs on one's thinking.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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That comes too late that comes for the asking.
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He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
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Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
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Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.