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“True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.”
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“The highest power is no power,
if you desire nothing.”
Seneca, Thyestes (440)
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"You are afraid of dying. But, come now, how is this life of yours anything but death?"
- Seneca, Moral Letters 77.18
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“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.”
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“The part of life we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.”
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"Limiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope … and you will cease to fear.’ … Widely different [as fear and hope] are, the two of them march in unison like a prisoner and the escort he is handcuffed to."
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“You know what wine and liqueur taste like. It makes no difference whether a hundred or a thousand bottles pass through your bladder; you are nothing more than a filter.”
- Seneca, Moral Letters 77.16
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“Watch the stars in their courses and imagine yourself running alongside them.”
- Marcus Aurelius, *Meditations* 7.47
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