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#382 Seneca: Daily Retirement


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A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation…you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

Famous Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery




A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Character, Happiness, Guarantee




A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

Motivational Quotes on: Attitude, Perception, Happy




As it is with a play, so it is with life—what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is.

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Death, Life




Away with the world's opinion of you—it's always unsettled and divided.

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

Famous Quotes on: Courage, Common Opinion




Be harsh with yourself at times.

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

Inspirational Quotes on: Self-awareness, Reflection




"Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock."

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

Motivational Quotes on: Attitude, Non-attachment, Power, Habit, Win




"Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it—the fear of it."

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Death, Fear




Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

Famous Quotes on: Energy




Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Death




Every journey has an end.

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

Motivational Quotes on: Goals




Everything hangs on one's thinking.

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

Self-Development Quotes on: Attitude




For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

Famous Quotes on: Wisdom, Simplicity, Freedom




God is near you, is with you, is inside you.

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

Inspirational Quotes on: Love, God




How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

Motivational Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery




How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

Self-Development Quotes on: Action, Habit, Honor




How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

Famous Quotes on: Love, Teach




I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

Inspirational Quotes on: Love, Communication




If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people's opinions, you will never be rich.

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

Motivational Quotes on: Courage, Common Opinion, Life, People, Poor, Rich




Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

~ Seneca Quotes from Letters from a Stoic

Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Death






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In the long run, avoiding activity that might hurt causes more agony than acting, failing, and dealing with the pain.

~ Unknown
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