No man was ever wise by chance
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
inspirational
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
labor difficulties adversity mind character inspirational challenges
Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
life inspirational
(The other side shall be heard as well.)
fairness justice
Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear.
life fear knowledge ignorance
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
mind transcendence zen stoicism
As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves
mind self
The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden.. Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memories of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has something for every age to investigate. Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.
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philosophy
The best ideas are common property
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis.
No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity
That you would not anticipate misery since the evils you dread as coming upon you may perhaps never reach you at least they are not yet come Thus some things torture us more than they ought, some before they ought and some which ought never to torture us at all. We heighten our pain either by presupposing a cause or anticipation
Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against othermisfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day
We deceive ourselves in thinking that death only follows life whereas it both goes before and will follow after it for where is the difference in not beginning or ceasing to exist the effect of both is not to be
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