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• Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Death

• Let us fight the battle—retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Motivational Quotes on: Action, Self-mastery

• Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Famous Quotes on: Wisdom, Death, Life, Honor

• Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy—that he live in accordance with his own nature.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Motivational Quotes on: Vision, Purpose

• No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Famous Quotes on: Wisdom, Character

• Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Motivational Quotes on: Love, Communication

• Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness…she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Philosopher, Happiness, Doubt

• Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Motivational Quotes on: Wisdom, Philosopher, Power

• "Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear."

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Inspirational Quotes on: Wisdom, Death, Fear

• Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

  Self-Development Quotes on: Wisdom, Death, Power, Freedom