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"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."

— Seneca

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"We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."

— Seneca

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"Happy the man who improves other people not merely when he is in their presence but even when he is in their thoughts."

— Seneca

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"You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone."

— Marcus Aurelius

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"For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose."

— Marcus Aurelius

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"Virtue is held too cheap by the man who counts his body too dear. We should cherish the body with the greatest care; but we should also be prepared, when reason, self-respect, and duty demand the sacrifice, to deliver it even to the flames."

— Seneca

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"How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy."

— Marcus Aurelius

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"When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."

— Seneca

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"The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going."

— Epictetus

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"Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good tomorrow than to be good today."

— Marcus Aurelius

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"Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age."

— Seneca

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"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

— Marcus Aurelius

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"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

— Seneca

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"It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."

— Seneca

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"If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you need is not to be in a different place but to be a different person."

— Seneca

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"Those who have learnt precepts and nothing more are anxious to give them out at once, just as men with weak stomachs vomit food."

— Epictetus

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"Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you."

— Marcus Aurelius

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"Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs."

— Seneca

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"All is ephemeral, both what remembers and what is remembered."

— Marcus Aurelius

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"Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look."

— Marcus Aurelius