We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
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SenecaMoral Letters to Lucilius, Letter XIII, tr. Richard Gummere
About Seneca
Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and author of the Moral Letters to Lucilius. (c. 4 BC-AD 65)
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- While we are postponing, life speeds by.Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter I, tr. Richard Gummere
- Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter CI, tr. Richard Gummere
- When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter LXXI, tr. Richard Gummere
- It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter II, tr. Richard Gummere
- Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter VII, tr. Richard Gummere
- It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, but because we do not dare, things are difficult.Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter CIV
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- Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.Marie Curie
- Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.Marie Curie
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