If virtue promises good fortune and tranquility and happiness, certainly also the progress towards virtue is progress towards each of these things. Discourses
“For the highest reach of injustice is, to be deemed just when you are not.” Republic
He only is anxious about the future, to whom the present is unprofitable. Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy. Counsels and Maxims
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