Statistics for Seneca Quotations - Fill in the Blank

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  • The average score is 4 of 10

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HintAnswer% Correct
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in _________ than in reality. Imagination
67%
Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live _______.Immediately
67%
If a man knows not which port he sails, no _____ is favorable."Wind
67%
For the only safe _______ in this life’s tossing, troubled sea is to refuse to be bothered about what the future will bring and to stand ready and confident, squaring the breast to take without skulking or flinching whatever fortune hurls at us.Harbor
33%
No person has the _______ to have everything they want, but it is in their ______ not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.Power
33%
It’s ruinous for the soul to be anxious about the future and miserable in advance of misery, engulfed by anxiety that the things it desires might remain its own until the very end. For such a soul will never be at rest— by longing for things to come it will lose the ability to enjoy ______ things.Present
33%
Difficulties ______ the mind, as labor does the bodyStrengthen
33%
People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering ________ they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.Time
33%
How does it help…to make _____ heavier by bemoaning them?Troubles
33%
It is not that we are given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but ______ of it.Wasteful
33%

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