Seneca: Fortune can take away wealth, but not courage.

Today’s Stoic

Fortune can take away wealth, but not courage.

Seneca · Letters from a Stoic · paraphrase

What it means today

Circumstance can strip you of everything you have; it cannot strip you of what you are. Courage, character, resolve — these are yours in a way money and luck never were.

Try this todayList one quality of yours that no loss could take away, and rely on it today.

Today’s questionWhat do I have that no fortune can take?

#courage #loss #character

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