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

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Seneca the Younger buch Epistulae morales

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

“You will thus understand that what you fear is either insignificant or short-lived.”

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

“Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardships of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.”

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

“Lay hold of today’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon tomorrow’s. While we are postponing, life speeds by.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter I: On Saving Time

“If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes, train him before it comes.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XVIII: On Festivals and Fasting

“Socrates was ennobled by the hemlock draught. Wrench from Cato's hand his sword, the vindicator of liberty, and you deprive him of the greatest share of his glory.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XIII: On Groundless Fears