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#1

“My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate, and I'd had to really debase myself to extract any emotion, either grin or grimace, from them.”
― Koren Zailckas, Fury: A Memoir

tags: boyfriends, ex-boyfriends, love, relationships, stoicism

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#2

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”
― Seneca, Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency

tags: behavior, character, cruelty, weakness

1155 likes

#3

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
― Seneca

tags: inspirational

1595 likes

#4

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

tags: common-people, corruption, organized-religion, useful

1155 likes

#5

“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
― Seneca

tags: latin, philosophy, stars

1154 likes

#6

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

tags: adversity, challenges, character, inspirational

1007 likes

#7

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

tags: inspirational

769 likes

#8

“Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.”
― Seneca

693 likes

#9

“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”
― Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters

tags: consicousness, dissociation, mind, stoicism, transcendence, zen

680 likes

#10

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
― Seneca the Younger

tags: goals

807 likes

#11

“Only time can heal what reason cannot.”
― Seneca

381 likes

#12

“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.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

tags: stress, travel

654 likes

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