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    Seneca
    “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: perseverance, suicide, survival
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    Seneca
    “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. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: attitude, gratitude, happiness, inspirational-quotes, satisfaction
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    Seneca
    “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: inspirational
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    Seneca
    “All cruelty springs from weakness.”
    ― Seneca, Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
    tags: behavior, character, cruelty, weakness
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    Seneca
    “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
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    Seneca
    “Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
    ― Seneca
    tags: latin, philosophy, stars
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    Seneca
    “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: adversity, challenges, character, inspirational
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  • #8
    Seneca
    “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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  • #9
    Seneca
    “As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: inspirational
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    Seneca
    “You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
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    Seneca
    “Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.”
    ― Seneca
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    Seneca
    “The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. 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, when memory of us will have been effaced.”
    ― Seneca, Natural Questions
    tags: astronomy, diligence, discoveries, disinformation, knowledge, lies, memory, misinformation, propoganda, research, science, time, truth
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    Seneca
    “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
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  • #14
    Seneca
    “If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
    ― Seneca the Younger
    tags: goals
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    Seneca
    “It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
    tags: employment, life, purpose-of-life, time, usefulness, waste
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    Seneca
    “It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ”
    ― Seneca
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  • #17
    Seneca
    “Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
    ― Seneca
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    Seneca
    “What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: life-philosophy
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    Seneca
    “He who is brave is free”
    ― Seneca
    tags: bravery, courage, freedom, gallantry
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “On the average, only those prisoners could keep alive who, after years of trekking from camp to camp, had lost all scruples in their fight for existence; they were prepared to use every means, honest and otherwise, even brutal force, theft, and betrayal of their friends, in order to save themselves. We who have come back, by the aid of many lucky chances or miracles - whatever one may choose to call them - we know: the best of us did not return.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
    tags: holocaust, honor, morality, sacrifice, survival, war
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  • #21
    C.G. Jung
    “If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences—and infer the motivation.”
    ― Carl Jung
    tags: jbp, jordan-peterson, jung
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