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Accept The Season
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Every stage has work proper to it.
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The four cardinal virtues of Stoicism: wisdom (prudence), justice, courage, and temperance. Virtue is the only good and is sufficient for happiness. For the Stoics, virtue is both the means and the end of a well-lived life -- sufficient for happiness regardless of external circumstances. The four cardinal virtues are interdependent.
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Accept The Season
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Every stage has work proper to it.
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Be The Purple
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A small life can still give the whole its color.
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Be Worth Trusting
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Friendship begins with the character you bring.
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Begin The Work
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Your task is not elsewhere.
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Born For Each Other
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Human life is not meant to be carried alone.
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Claim Your Hours
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Time is the one wealth people steal politely.
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Correct Without Anger
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Firmness does not require contempt.
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Do Not Drift
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A life is spent one unnoticed hour at a time.
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Do The Right Thing
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Approval is lighter than conscience.
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Face The Door
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Fear weakens when you stop pretending exits do not exist.
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Fear Less Clearly
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Most fear grows in imagination before reality.
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Guard Your Choice
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Freedom begins with what is truly yours.
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Judgment Creates Disturbance
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Events arrive; your meaning gives them weight.
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Keep Good Company
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The soul absorbs the room it lives in.
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Lead From Character
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Authority is tested by restraint.
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Meet People Gently
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Understanding weakens the need to strike back.
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Meet Your Mortality
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Remembering death can return life to itself.
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Name Things Plainly
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Clarity often begins by removing glamour.
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Nothing Owns You
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Dependency begins where judgment surrenders.
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Own Your No
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Inner freedom includes the courage to refuse.
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Practice What Matters
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Philosophy is proven in the life it shapes.
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Receive The Ordinary
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What you have today is not guaranteed tomorrow.
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Receive Your Role
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Play well what life has placed in your hands.
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Share The World
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Reason makes you a citizen of more than yourself.
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Simplify Your Desire
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Wanting less can make action cleaner.
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Use What Comes
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Even difficulty can become material for virtue.
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Want Less Noise
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Simplicity protects the mind from needless hunger.
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Welcome The Given
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What arrives can still be met with dignity.
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Wish With Reality
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Peace grows when desire stops fighting what is.
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Withdraw Within Yourself
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The quiet place is not always far away.
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