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“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
-Seneca
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
-Seneca
“True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
-Seneca
“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“All cruelty springs from weakness.”
-Seneca
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
-Seneca
“A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
-Seneca
“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
-Seneca
“Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms — you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.”
– Seneca
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject… And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them… Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”
-Seneca
“There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via” – “There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
-Seneca
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”
-Seneca
“Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire”
-Seneca
“For greed all nature is too little.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
-Seneca
“If you wished to be loved, love.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
– Seneca
“No man was ever wise by chance.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ”
– Seneca
“A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. … The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”
-Seneca
“A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”
-Seneca
“Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”
-Seneca
“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.”
-Seneca
“It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.”
-Seneca
“Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”
-Seneca
“A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool ”
– Seneca
“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast – a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it?
A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys.”
-Seneca
“He who is brave is free.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“The sun also shines on the wicked.”
-Seneca
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