We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-reflection and accountability in personal growth.
Seneca the Elder encourages individuals to engage in nightly self-reflection, assessing their personal growth by evaluating the challenges they faced, the temptations they resisted, and the virtues they developed. This practice not only fosters self-awareness but also strengthens one's character and moral resolve, promoting continuous improvement in the pursuit of a virtuous life.
In practice
A mentor sharing this quote with mentees during a workshop on personal development.
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.
The sun also shines on the wicked.
Let us be brave in the face of adversity.
The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.
God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
Freedom exists only with power.
India is a proud and sovereign country. We do not take any decisions under pressure from the U.S. or any other power.
More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.
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