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  • #1
    Seneca
    “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
    Seneca

  • #2
    Seneca
    “Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
    Seneca

  • #3
    Seneca
    “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #4
    Seneca
    “The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”
    Seneca, Natural Questions

  • #5
    Seneca
    “If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
    Seneca the Younger

  • #6
    Seneca
    “It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ”
    Seneca

  • #7
    Seneca
    “What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #8
    Seneca
    “No man was ever wise by chance”
    Seneca

  • #9
    Seneca
    “Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune's control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
    Seneca

  • #10
    Seneca
    “As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #11
    Seneca
    “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #12
    Seneca
    “Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #13
    Seneca
    “We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #14
    Charlotte Eriksson
    “And the rain drops kept falling like the sweetest music
    leaving tears on the glass,
    which is what music does to me
    most of the time
    but silence too. and rain.”
    Charlotte Eriksson

  • #15
    Zeno of Citium
    “We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.”
    Zeno of Citium, as quoted by Diogenes Laërtius

  • #16
    Zeno of Citium
    “Man conquers the world by conquering himself.”
    Zeno of Citium

  • #17
    Zeno of Citium
    “All the good are friends of one another.”
    Zeno of Citium

  • #18
    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    Plato

  • #19
    Plato
    “Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”
    Plato

  • #20
    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    Voltaire

  • #21
    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    Voltaire

  • #22
    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    Voltaire

  • #23
    Voltaire
    “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
    Voltaire

  • #24
    Voltaire
    “Love truth, but pardon error.”
    Voltaire

  • #25
    Voltaire
    “Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
    Voltaire

  • #26
    Voltaire
    “The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”
    Voltaire

  • #27
    Voltaire
    “It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
    Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes

  • #28
    Voltaire
    “Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.”
    Voltaire
    tags: food

  • #29
    Voltaire
    “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
    Voltaire

  • #30
    Voltaire
    “Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”
    Voltaire



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