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20 Deep Philosophy Quotes From "Seneca"

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1. “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

- Seneca

2. “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”

- Seneca

3. "Time heals what reason cannot."

- Seneca

4. “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

- Seneca

5. "Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

Welcome those who you are capable of improving.

The process is a mutual one: men learn as they teach."

- Seneca

6. “Every night before going to sleep, we must ask ourselves:

What weakness did I overcome today? What virtue did I acquire?”

- Seneca

7. “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship,

Is to understand and to be understood.”

- Seneca

8. “A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”

- Seneca

9. “Being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more.”

- Seneca

10. "True happiness is to enjoy the present,

without anxious dependence upon the future,

not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have,

which is sufficient, for he that is so, wants nothing. "

- Seneca

11. "The greatest remedy for anger is delay."

- Seneca

12. “The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”

- Seneca

13. "If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him."

- Seneca

14. "Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."

- Seneca

15. “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”

- Seneca

16. “As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”

- Seneca

17. “True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”

- Seneca

18. “It is better to conquer our grief than to deceive it.”

- Seneca

19. "All cruelty springs from weakness."

- Seneca

20. "What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you."

- Seneca

Wrap Up:

1. Routine: Heal with the flow
2. Track: Document your journey
3. Willpower: Fight through events

Life changes with time. Nothing ever remains same.

Master your mind. Master your life.

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