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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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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLII: On Values

“Very often the things that cost nothing cost us the most heavily; I can show you many objects the quest and acquisition of which have wrested freedom from our hands.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLII: On Values

“It is generally agreed that no activity can be successfully pursued by an individual who is preoccupied – not rhetoric or liberal studies – since the mind when distracted absorbs nothing deeply, but rejects everything which is, so to speak, crammed into it.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLIX: On the Shortness of Life

“Non faciunt meliorem equum aurei freni.”

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

“You must die erect and unyielding.”

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

“You must lay aside the burdens of the mind; until you do this, no place will satisfy you.”

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

“You do not know where death awaits you; so be ready for it everywhere.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXVI: On Old Age and Death

“I do not know whether I shall make progress; but I should prefer to lack success rather than to lack faith.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXV: On Reformation

“It was a great deed to conquer Carthage, but a greater deed to conquer death.”

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

“Mucius put his hand into the fire. It is painful to be burned; but how much more painful to inflict such suffering upon oneself!”

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

“Armies have endured all manner of want, have lived on roots, and have resisted hunger by means of food too revolting to mention. All this they have suffered to gain a kingdom, and—what is more marvellous—to gain a kingdom that will be another’s. Will any man hesitate to endure poverty, in order that he may free his mind from madness?”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XVII: On Philosophy and Riches

“There is no reason why poverty should call us away from philosophy—no, nor even actual want. For when hastening after wisdom, we must endure even hunger. Men have endured hunger when their towns were besieged, and what other reward for their endurance did they obtain than that they did not fall under the conqueror’s power? How much greater is the promise of the prize of everlasting liberty, and the assurance that we need fear neither God nor man! Even though we starve, we must reach that goal.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XVII: On Philosophy and Riches

“But both courses are to be avoided; you should not copy the bad simply because they are many, nor should you hate the many because they are unlike you.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter VII: On crowds

“What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.”

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That was indeed agreat benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind.
Seneca is quoting Hecato.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter VI: On precepts and exemplars

“I commend you and rejoice in the fact that you are persistent in your studies, and that, putting all else aside, you make it each day your endeavour to become a better man.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter V: On the Philosopher’s Mean

“No man has ever been so far advanced by Fortune that she did not threaten him as greatly as she had previously indulged him.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter IV: On the terrors of death

“The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man’s ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter II: On discursiveness in reading

“This spirit thrusts itself forward, confident of commendation and esteem. It is superior to all, monarch of all it surveys; hence it should be subservient to nothing, finding no task too heavy, and nothing strong enough to weigh down the shoulders of a man.”

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

“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.”

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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.”

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