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On Action
On practice over theory — on duty, work, and the living of Stoicism in each hour.
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Virtue must be acquired through practice.
Lectures 6
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Every action of the virtuous man is well done.
Fragment, in Diogenes Laertius 7.122
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Meditations 9.6
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One should count each day as a separate life.
Letters 101.10
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Be silent for the most part, or speak only what is necessary, and in few words.
Enchiridion 33
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A man cannot learn what he thinks he already knows.
Discourses 2.17.1
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Duty demands that we pay back to the state all that we have received from it.
via Cicero, On Duties 1.22
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Nothing is so unworthy of a man of worth as to have no worthy thing to do.
Letters 22.9