A THREAD on thought provoking timeless ideas by Seneca:
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We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
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We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms - you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.
Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms - you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.
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There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them.
Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come.
There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them.
Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
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No man was ever wise by chance.
No man was ever wise by chance.
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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed.
You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed.
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Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested...
Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested...
...But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing.
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
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To win true freedom, you must be a slave to philosophy.
To win true freedom, you must be a slave to philosophy.
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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.
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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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can.
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.
Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can.
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.
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