40 Kutipan Seneca yang Menenangkan Jiwa dan Menguatkan Hati
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16. “A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.”
17. “Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.”
18. “If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”
19. “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
20. “A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
21–30: Tentang Kekayaan dan Keinginan
21. “Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.”
22. “What fortune has made yours is not your own.”
23. “Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.”
24. “You ask what is the proper limit to a person’s wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.”
25. “For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”
26. “Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.”
27. “Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.”
28. “It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
29. “He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.”
30. “For greed all nature is too little.”
31–40: Tentang Persahabatan dan Kebijaksanaan
31. “What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.”
32. “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
33. “Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.”
34. “Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal.”
35. “There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with.”
36. “But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake.”
