Seneca's Letters from a Stoic

3. All you need to do is to advance; you will thus understand that some things are less to be dreaded, precisely because they inspire us with great fear. No evil is great which is the last evil of all. Death arrives; it would be a thing to dread, if it could remain with you. But death must either not come at all, or else must come and pass away.

"What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself." That was indeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind

Many of our blessings bring bane to us; for memory recalls the tortures of fear, while foresight anticipates them. The present alone can make no man wretched. Farewell.

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

this reason, make life as a whole agreeable to yourself by banishing all worry about it. No good thing renders

craves more, that is poor.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who

Everywhere means nowhere.

"It is wrong to live under constraint; but no man is constrained to live under constraint."

On the other hand," he says, "nothing is needed by the fool, for he does not understand how to use anything, but he is in want of everything."