Character: Seneca
The shortest path to wealth is through contempt for wealth.
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MegaMozg 11-11-2022 / 07:24
He who is busy has no time for mischief; and what is more certain is that deeds eradicate the vices engendered by idleness.
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Viker 26-05-2022 / 10:15
Only that serenity is true, whose root is the perfection of the spirit.
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Viker 25-05-2022 / 20:28
Life nearby makes us spoiled, and although we sometimes sit together, walk and talk together, but, having parted separately, we stop thinking about those whom we just saw. Therefore, we must endure separation calmly, because everyone is separated for a long time even from those who are close.
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MegaMozg 25-05-2022 / 02:15
Therefore, it is impossible to throw a wise man out the door: after all, to throw out means to drive out from where you leave against your will. But the wise do nothing against their will and escape from the power of necessity. voluntarily doing what she compels.
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MegaMozg 25-05-2022 / 02:06
Death is nothingness; but it was before, and I know what it is: after me it will be the same as it was before me.
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MegaMozg 25-05-2022 / 02:03
Contrary to common sense, people always stand up for what brings them trouble. This is what happens in elections in the popular assembly: as soon as the fickle wave of popularity rolls back, we begin to wonder how the people we ourselves have just voted for have slipped into praetors. We sometimes approve and sometimes condemn the same things; this is the inevitable defect of any decision taken by the majority.
Quote Explanation: Chapter 1.
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MegaMozg 30-03-2022 / 04:42
This means that the main thing for us is not to become like sheep, which always run after the flock, heading not where they need to go, but where everyone is going. There is no thing in the world that brings us more evils and troubles than the habit of conforming to public opinion, considering as the best what is accepted by the majority and to which we see more examples; we live not by understanding, but by imitation. Hence this eternal crush, where everyone is pushing each other, trying to push back.
Quote Explanation: Chapter 1
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MegaMozg 30-03-2022 / 04:39
If we wanted to understand the causes of our fear, we would be convinced that some of them exist, while others seem to us. We are not afraid of death, but of thoughts about death - after all, we are always two steps away from death itself. So, if death is terrible, then one must always be in fear: are we ever delivered from it?
Quote Explanation: Letter 30.
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MegaMozg 26-01-2022 / 23:45
I was not born for one corner: the whole world is my fatherland.
Quote Explanation: Letter 28.
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MegaMozg 26-01-2022 / 23:27
The perfection of the spirit can neither be borrowed nor bought, and even if it were for sale, all the same, I think, there would be no buyer. But meanness is bought daily.
Quote Explanation: Letter 25.
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MegaMozg 26-01-2022 / 23:24
Poverty, living according to the law of nature, is wealth.
Quote Explanation: Letter 25
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MegaMozg 26-01-2022 / 23:21
I never wanted to please the people - after all, the people do not like what I know, and I do not know what the people love.
Quote Explanation: Letter 29
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Viker 26-01-2022 / 18:38
The favor of the people cannot be obtained otherwise than by shameful tricks. The crowd needs to become like it: if it doesn’t recognize you as its own, it won’t love you. It's not about how you seem to others, but how you seem to yourself. Only in a low way can one win the love of the low.
Quote Explanation: Letter 29
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Viker 26-01-2022 / 18:38
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than cunning.
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Viker 26-01-2022 / 18:27