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Seneca's Letters from a Stoic

  • Sylashat Zitat gemachtletztes Jahr
    Do you suppose that you alone have had this experience? Are you surprised, as if it were a novelty, that after such long travel and so many changes of scene you have not been able to shake off the gloom and heaviness of your mind? You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.[1] Though you may cross vast spaces of sea, and though, as our Vergil[2] remarks,

    Lands and cities are left astern,

    your faults will follow you whithersoever you travel. 2. Socrates made the same remark to one who complained; he said: "Why do you wonder that globe-trotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason which set you wandering is ever at your heels."
  • Sylashat Zitat gemachtletztes Jahr
    It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
  • b7849550829hat Zitat gemachtletztes Jahr
    emperor, Seneca is so linked with the age in which he lived that in reading his works we read those of a true representative of the most thrilling period of Roman history
  • Victor Deshhat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
    I advise you to do is, not to be unhappy before the crisis comes; since it may be that the dangers before which you paled as if they were threatening you, will never come upon you; they certainly have not yet come.
  • Azat Sagyndykovhat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
    We were entrusted by nature

    Нам доверила природа

  • Christophe Andrehat Zitat gemachtvor 2 Jahren
    living simply is voluntary poverty.
  • maula faizhat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Jahren
    Everywhere means nowhere.
  • maula faizhat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Jahren
    The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.
  • maula faizhat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Jahren
    I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him.
  • maula faizhat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Jahren
    expense account balances, as you would expect from one who is free-handed but careful.
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