to be everywhere is to be nowhere
SenecaWhy do I not rather seek some real good - one which I could feel, not one which I could display? These things that draw the eyes of men, before which they halt, which they show to one another in wonder, outwardly glitter, but are worthless within.
SenecaNo man can be sane who searches for what will injure him in place of what is best.
SenecaLife, if you know how to use it, is long; but…many, following no fixed aim, shifting and… dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness into plans that are ever new; some have no fixed principle by which to direct their course.
SenecaMen whose spirit has grown arrogant from the great favor of fortune have this most serious fault—those whom they have injured they also hate.
SenecaThe highest good is a mind that scorns the happenings of chance, and rejoices only in virtue.
SenecaDo not run hither and thither and distract yourself by changing your abode; for such restlessness is the sign of a disordered spirit.
SenecaWhen a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
SenecaNo good thing renders its possessor happy, unless his mind is reconciled to the possibility of loss; nothing, however, is lost with less discomfort than that which, when lost, cannot be missed.
SenecaWe should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it. Our too great love for it makes us restless with fears, burdens us with cares, and exposes us to insults.
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