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Do you seek Alcides' equal? None is, except himself.
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Mens impudicam facere, non casus, solet.
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If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes, train him before it comes.
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Prove your words by your deeds.
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You will thus understand that what you fear is either insignificant or short-lived.
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It was a great deed to conquer Carthage, but a greater deed to conquer death.
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You do not know where death awaits you; so be ready for it everywhere.
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You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.
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You must lay aside the burdens of the mind; until you do this, no place will satisfy you.
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He who does not wish to die cannot have wished to live.
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Would you know what makes men greedy for the future? It is because no one has yet found himself.
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You must die erect and unyielding.
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No man ought to glory except in that which is his own.
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He that owns himself has lost nothing. But how few men are blessed with ownership of self!
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Would you really know what philosophy offers to humanity? Philosophy offers counsel.
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The wise man is joyful, happy and calm, unshaken, he lives on a plane with the gods.
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That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.
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I am endeavouring to live every day as if it were a complete life.
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Fortune has taken away, but Fortune has given.
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Let us greedily enjoy our friends, because we do not know how long this privilege will be ours.
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Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
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These actions are not essentially difficult; it is we ourselves that are soft and flabby.
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He knows his own strength; he knows that he was born to carry burdens.
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But the wise man knows that all things are in store for him. Whatever happens, he says: "I knew it."
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So near at hand is freedom, and is anyone still a slave?
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There is no sorrow in the world, when we have escaped from the fear of death.
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Is it for this purpose that we are strong--that we may have light burdens to bear?
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You must go now, fellow-soldiers, to yonder place, whence there is no 'must' about your returning!"
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But he has no fear; unconquered he looks down from a lofty height upon his sufferings.
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A thatched roof once covered free men; under marble and gold dwells slavery.
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As our acts and our thoughts are, so will our lives be.
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All the Good of mortals is mortal."
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Pain he endures, death he awaits.
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Accept in an unruffled spirit that which is inevitable.
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But how foolish it is to set out one's life, when one is not even owner of the morrow!
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Therefore, my dear Lucilius, begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
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If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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That man lives badly who does not know how to die well.
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