Selected Letters Quotes

“You ask what progress I have made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.”
― Seneca, Selected Letters

“You should not become like evil men because they are many, or be hostile to the many because they are unlike you.”
― Seneca, Selected Letters

“Will pain not be conquered by reason, when it is defeated by a smile?”
― Elaine Fantham, Selected Letters

“We should follow our own humour more in dying than in any other business.”
― Elaine Fantham, Selected Letters

“No man is blest who does not think it so.”
― Elaine Fantham, Selected Letters

“poverty reconciled by the law of nature is great wealth.”
― Elaine Fantham, Selected Letters

“Take counsel with Nature: she will say that she made both day and night for you.”
― Elaine Fantham, Selected Letters

“Nothing delays healing as much as a constant change of remedies.”
― Elaine Fantham, Selected Letters

“I think it is the first proof of a stable mind to be able to pause and spend time with oneself.”
― Elaine Fantham, Selected Letters

“While life is being postponed, it rushes past.”
― Elaine Fantham, Selected Letters