“The true felicity of life is to be free from perturbations, to understand our…”

The true felicity of life is to be free from perturbations, to understand our duties towards God and man: to enjoy the present without any anxious dependence upon the future.

Seneca Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency, 1882

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Author: Seneca
Source: Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
Type: book
Year: 1882
Locator: Of a Happy Life, ch. I
Translator: Roger L'Estrange
Publisher: Belford, Clarke & Co.
Rights: Public domainPublic domain in the USCC0, no rights reservedProtected work, short quotation
Check it: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56075

From Roger L'Estrange's abstract of Seneca's moral writings, first published in 1678.

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Mindfulness
Happiness

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Seneca 4 BCE–65 · Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist. Wikipedia