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“If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail upon a sea where shipwrecks are a common occurrence and there are often sudden storms that sweep the helmsman in an adverse direction, I conclude that this man, although he lauds navigation, really forbids me to launch my ship.”
― Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters

“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
― Seneca

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

“Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca