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"There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
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"Here is your great soul-the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself."
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"Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and the depths of misery."
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"He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires."
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"I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery."
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"There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
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"She would only make me take my seat if I didn't act calm and Swiss about it all."
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"Whatever this is that I am, it is a little flesh and breath, and the ruling part. Throw away thy books; no longer distract thyself: it is not allowed; but as if thou wast now dying, despise the flesh; it is blood and bones and a network, a contexture of nerves, veins, and arteries. See the breath also, what kind of a thing it is, air, and not always the same, but every moment sent out and again sucked in. The third then is the ruling part: consider thus: Thou art an old man; no longer let this be a slave, no longer be pulled by the strings like a puppet to unsocial movements, no longer be either dissatisfied with thy present lot, or shrink from the future."
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"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
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"Worrying about things you cannot control is folly. Focus only on those few things you have any control over, and your life becomes much simpler."
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"My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable."
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"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
Life
"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."
Wealth
"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones."
Future
"The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them."
Destiny
"Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day."
Wisdom
"Errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical."
Wisdom
"A hungry people listens not to reason nor cares for justice nor is bent by any prayers."
Society
"Once you have rid yourself of the affliction there, though, every change of scene will become a pleasure. You may be banished to the ends of the earth, and yet in whatever outlandish corner of the world you may find yourself stationed, you will find that place, whatever it may be like, a hospitable home. Where you arrive does not matter so much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there."
Philosophy
"Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
Philosophy
"A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach."
Wellness
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