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“Then it is that the height of unhappiness is reached, when men are not only attracted, but even pleased, by shameful things, and when there is no longer any room for a cure, now that those things which once were vices have become habits.”

Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXXIX: On Noble Aspirations

“Whoever complains about the death of anyone, is complaining that he was a man. Everyone is bound by the same terms: he who is privileged to be born, is destined to die.”

Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCVIX: On Consolation to the Bereaved

“No man was ever wise by chance.”

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“Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.”

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“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”

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“Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.”

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“The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.”

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“The wise man is joyful, happy and calm, unshaken, he lives on a plane with the gods.”

Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LIX: On Pleasure and Joy

“Would not anyone who is a man have his slumbers broken by a war-trumpet rather than by a chorus of serenaders?”

Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LI: On Baiae and Morals

“Marcet sine adversario virtus.”

Seneca the Younger book De Providentia

Valor withers without adversity.
De Providentia (On Providence), 2.4
Moral Essays

“Besides, he who is feared, fears also; no one has been able to arouse terror and live in peace of mind.”

Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CV: On Facing the World With Confidence

“Socrates is reported to have replied, when a certain person complained of having received no benefit from his travels: “It serves you right! You travelled in your own company!””

Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CIV: On Care of Health and Peace of Mind

“The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live. And often this living nobly means that you cannot live long.”

Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CI: On the Futility of Planning Ahead

“But how foolish it is to set out one’s life, when one is not even owner of the morrow!”

Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CI: On the Futility of Planning Ahead

“All the Good of mortals is mortal.”

Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCVIII: On the Fickleness of Fortune

“As our acts and our thoughts are, so will our lives be.”

Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCV: On the usefulness of basic principles