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Book cover for Seneca Six Pack (Illustrated): On the Happy Life, Letters from a Stoic Vol I, Medea, On Leisure, The Daughters of Troy and The Stoic (Six Pack Classics Book 4)
ALL MEN, brother Gallio, wish to live happily, but are dull at perceiving exactly what it is that makes life happy: and so far is it from being easy to attain the happiness that the more eagerly a man struggles to reach it the further he ...more
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Reminds me of the saying...”Direction is faster than speed.” So how do you know what’s the right way, the best path? It’s the most suited to your strengths, weaknesses, environment and your realities. So how do you know your realities ? Don’t be delusional, think rationally, think objectively, know yourself. But what if you’re not brought up to think rationally and objectively? Surround yourself with the right people that give you a reality check, that think objectively, that can be detached from you. But that hurts and is tedious... life is short, don’t hesitate, don’t waste time. See Seneca’s letter on Time.
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Winston S. Churchill
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
Winston S. Churchill

Ernest Hemingway
“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
Hemingway, Ernest

Stefan Zweig
“Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.”
Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories

Herbert Bayard Swope
“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
Herbert Bayard Swope

Ernest Hemingway
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

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