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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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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVIII: On the Healing Power of the Mind

“Pain he endures, death he awaits.”

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

“So near at hand is freedom, and is anyone still a slave?”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVII: On Taking One’s Own Life

“But the wise man knows that all things are in store for him. Whatever happens, he says: “I knew it.””

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVI: On Learning Wisdom in Old Age

“He knows his own strength; he knows that he was born to carry burdens.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXI: On the supreme good

“Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXIII

“Fortune has taken away, but Fortune has given.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXIII

“That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.”

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

“There is no sorrow in the world, when we have escaped from the fear of death.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVIII: On the Healing Power of the Mind

“Let us greedily enjoy our friends, because we do not know how long this privilege will be ours.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXIII

“I am endeavouring to live every day as if it were a complete life.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXI: On meeting death cheerfully

“We are weak, watery beings standing in the midst of unrealities; therefore let us turn our minds to the things that are everlasting.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LVIII: On Being

“Our luxuries have condemned us to weakness; we have ceased to be able to do that which we have long declined to do.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LV: On Vatia’s Villa

“And what is freedom, you ask? It means not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.”

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

“No man ought to glory except in that which is his own.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLI: On the god within us

“It is the quality of a great soul to scorn great things and to prefer that which is ordinary rather than that which is too great.”

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

“It is disgraceful, instead of proceeding ahead, to be carried along, and then suddenly, amid the whirlpool of events, to ask in a dazed way: “How did I get into this condition?””

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXXVII: On Allegiance to Virtue

“He who does not wish to die cannot have wished to live.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXX: On conquering the conqueror

“You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXVIII: On travel as a cure for discontent

“[Mucius] might have accomplished something more successful in that camp, but never anything more brave.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXIV: On despising death