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“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
Seneca
“True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
“If you wished to be loved, love.”
“Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.”
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
“Time discovers truth.”
“He is most powerful who has power over himself”
“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”
“Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.”
“True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient”