Wisdom From Seneca’s Letters — Part 2

This is the second part of wisdom drawn from Seneca as shared in the book: ‘The Letters From a Stoic’.

• A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
• A sound mind can neither be bought nor borrowed.
• Where you arrive does not matter so much as what sort of person you are when you arrive.
• A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step salvation. — Epicurus
• Be harsh with yourself at times.
• When things stand out and attract attention in a work you can be sure there is an uneven quality about it. One tree by itself never calls for admiration when the whole forest rises to the same height.
• A work of genius is a synthesis of its individual features from which nothing can be subtracted without disaster.
• Assume authority yourself and utter something that may be handed down to posterity. Produce something from your resources.
• To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to your memory, whereas to know, by contrast, is actually to make each item your own.
• Truth lies open to everyone. There has yet to be a monopoly of truth.
• Man’s ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he was born.
• Stop misinterpreting the kindness of fortune.

Check the first part of the wisdom from Seneca in this post.