“Pain is slight if opinion has added nothing to it; ... in thinking it slight, you will make it slight. Everything depends on opinion. It is according to opinion that we suffer. A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is.”
Seneca“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."— Seneca”
Seneca, Seneca: Das große Buch vom glücklichen Leben - Gesammelte Werke“...certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly.”
Seneca“We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole”
Seneca“Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ...”
Seneca“Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.”
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