Seneca

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"A man must swallow a toad every morning to be sure not to meet with anything more disgusting in the day ahead."
"If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor—if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich."
"Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long."
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
"What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears."
“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
“Precepts or maxims are of great weight, and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.”
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
Seneca, Dialogues