Character: Seneca. Page 2

Promise me one thing: when they begin to convince you from all sides that you are unhappy, think not about what you hear, but about what you feel.

We are either increasing our suffering, or inventing it, or anticipating it.

An athlete who has not known bruises cannot go into battle with courage. Only the one who saw his own blood, whose teeth cracked under the fist, who, having received the bandwagon, withstood the weight of the enemy with his whole body, who, having fallen, did not lose heart and, overturned, stood up even more adamant every time - only he, entering the battle , does not part with hope.

One day is equal to every other.

Every day is a step in life, our entire age is divided into parts and consists of circles, smaller and larger, covering smaller ones.

Become a slave to philosophy in order to achieve true freedom.

He who seems to be a bum is busy with the most important matters, both divine and human together.

Meanwhile, both one and the other must be avoided: one cannot become like the evil because there are many of them, one cannot hate many because one does not become like them.

What is accidentally inherited cannot be considered your own.

Only a small sorrow speaks; great - silent.

As a fable, and life is valued not for long, but for the content.

Keep reading many writers, and all kinds of books are not produced mutnosti and uncertainty in mind. You should feed your mind only the writers of undeniable advantages. Excessive reading entertains the mind, to wean him from independent work. Therefore, read only the books of old, certainly a good one. If there ever is a desire to move on time to other sort of works, and never forget to go to the former.

Let it be a husband faithful to his wife in the road
And bashful temper; timeless
And eternal only the good of those that live in the soul,
And beauty carries every day.

However, the philosophy is not to boast of: for many who bragged about it and boasted she was the cause of the danger. May she deliver us from the evils of you, and do not speak out against other people's vices.