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• Many men praise you; but have you any reason for being pleased with yourself, if you are a person whom the many can understand?
• One who seeks friendship for favourable occasions, strips it of all its nobility.
• There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
• What I advise you to do is, not to be unhappy before the crisis comes; since it may be that the dangers before which you paled as if they were threatening you, will never come upon you; they certainly have not yet come.
• Accordingly, some things torment us more than they ought; some torment us before they ought; and some torment us when they ought not to torment us at all. We are in the habit of exaggerating, or imagining, or anticipating, sorrow.