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1 " ¿Preguntas cúal es el fundamento de la sabiduría? No gozarte en cosas vanas. "
― Seneca , Epistles 1-65
2 " If we could be satisfied with anything, we should have been satisfied long ago. "
3 " When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. "
4 " Men whose spirit has grown arrogant from the great favor of fortune have this most serious fault—those whom they have injured they also hate. "
5 " No man can be sane who searches for what will injure him in place of what is best. "
6 " Do not run hither and thither and distract yourself by changing your abode; for such restlessness is the sign of a disordered spirit. "
7 " Are you surprised, as if it were a novelty, that after such long travel and so many changes of scene you have not been able to shake off the gloom and heaviness of your mind? You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate. [...] Do you ask why such flight does not help you? It is because you flee along with yourself. You must lay aside the burdens of the mind; until you do this, no place will satisfy you. "
8 " Why do I not rather seek some real good - one which I could feel, not one which I could display? These things that draw the eyes of men, before which they halt, which they show to one another in wonder, outwardly glitter, but are worthless within. "
9 " It is our conscience, not our pride, that has put doorkeepers at our doors. "
10 " No good thing renders its possessor happy, unless his mind is reconciled to the possibility of loss; nothing, however, is lost with less discomfort than that which, when lost, cannot be missed. "
11 " The highest good is a mind that scorns the happenings of chance, and rejoices only in virtue. "
12 " Life, if you know how to use it, is long; but…many, following no fixed aim, shifting and… dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness into plans that are ever new; some have no fixed principle by which to direct their course. "
13 " We are indeed apt to ascribe certain faults to the place or to the time; but those faults will follow us, no matter how we change our place. "
14 " No past life has been lived to lend us glory, and that which has existed before us is not ours. "
15 " No one can live happily who has regard for himself alone and transforms everything into a question of his own utility "
16 " We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it. Our too great love for it makes us restless with fears, burdens us with cares, and exposes us to insults. "
17 " Although the sum and substance of the happy life is unalloyed freedom from care, and though the secret of such freedom is unshaken confidence... men gather together that which causes worry. "
18 " What Chance has made yours is not really yours. "
19 " Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardships of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die. "
20 " Associe-se com aqueles que irão lhe fazer um homem melhor. Dê boas-vindas àqueles que podem fazer você melhorar. O processo é mútuo pois os homens aprendem enquanto ensinam. "
