🔬 Life
Life is divided into three parts: what was, what is and what shall be. Of these three periods, the present is short, the future is doubtful and the past alone is certain.
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Seneca

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Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear.
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Seneca
🔬 Wisdom

I am not a ‘wise man,’ nor . . . Shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes.
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Seneca
🔬 Wisdom

Distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction).
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Seneca
🔬 Mindset

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.
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Seneca
🔬 Life

It takes all of our life to learn how to live, and – something that may surprise you more – it takes just as long to learn how to die.
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Seneca
🔬 Animals

Man is a social animal.
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Seneca