Explore One Of The Most Powerful 100 Wonderful And Positive Seneca Quotes
01) ”Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.”
02) ”Only time can heal what reason cannot.”
03) ”If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich.”
04) ”Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”
05) ”He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.”
06) ”They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”
07) ”No man was ever wise by chance.”
08) ”He who is brave is free.”
09) ”Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
10) ”Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”
11) ”If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
12) ”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.”
13) ”It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”
14) ”Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms, you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.”
15) ”It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ”
16) ”If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
17) ”You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.”
18) ”Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
19) ”All cruelty springs from weakness.”
20) ”Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
21) ”We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
22) ”Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
23) ”Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
24) ”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.”
25) ”Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.”
25) ”To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.”
26) ”Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.”
27) ”A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.”
28) ”Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.”
29) ”But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.”
30) ”Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”
31) ”There is no genius without a touch of madness.”
32) ”We learn not in the school, but in life.”
33) ”Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.”
34) ”A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.”
35) ”Nothing is ours, except time.”
36) ”No man is good by chance. Virtue is something which must be learned.”
37) ”A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.”
38) ”Every day as it comes should be welcomed and reduced forthwith into our own possession as if it were the finest day imaginable. What flies past has to be seized at.”
39) ”It is not what you endure that matters, but how you endure it.”
40) ”If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be rich.”
41) ”Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.”
42) ”A wise man never asks what another man serves, for only his actions will speak the truth.”
43) ”The shortest route to wealth is the contempt of wealth.”
44) ”Do not run hither and thither and distract yourself by changing your abode; for such restlessness is the sign of a disordered spirit.”
45) ”My anger is more likely to do me more harm than your wrong.”
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46) ”The man who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive.”
47) ”It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a lot of it.”
48) ”Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.”
49) ”All those who call you to themselves draw you away from yourself.”
50) ”Wherever there is a human being, there exists the opportunity for an act of kindness.”
51) ”Life is divided into three parts: what was, what is and what shall be. Of these three periods, the present is short, the future is doubtful and the past alone is certain.”
52) ”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.”
53) ”Excellence withers without an adversary.”
54) ”the mind is never right but when it is at peace with itself.”
55) ”There will always be causes for anxiety, whether due to prosperity or to wretchedness. Life will be driven on through a succession of preoccupations: we shall always long for leisure, but never enjoy it.”
56) ”Let us take pleasure in what we have received and make no comparison; no man will ever be happy if tortured by the greater happiness of another.”
57) ”Everlasting misfortune does have one blessing, that it ends up by toughening those whom it constantly afflicts.”
58) ”Where you arrive does not matter so much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.”
59) ”To be everywhere; is to be nowhere.”
60) ”The mind when distracted absorbs nothing deeply.”
61) ”It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.”
62) ”There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.”
63) ”The highest good is a mind that scorns the happenings of chance, and rejoices only in virtue.”
64) ”True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
65) ”Human greatness is not discovered until it is tested; we must be hardened against fortune by fortune itself.”
66) ”Anyone who likes may make things easier for himself by viewing them with equanimity.”
67) ”The best remedy for anger is delay.”
68) ”The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution.”
69) ”In times of happiness, no point in shaking things up. But in a time of crisis, the safest thing is change.”
70) ”All fools suffer the burden of dissatisfaction with themselves.”
71) ”While we are postponing, life speeds by.”
72) ”Ignorance is no cure for suffering.”
73) ”The man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive.”
74) ”Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits.”
75) ”Restless people often pretend to be calm.”
76) ”Everyone hustles his life along, and is troubled by a longing for the future and weariness of the present.”
77) ”There is never a time when new distraction will not show up; we sow them, so several will grow from the same seed.”
78) ”There is never a time when new distraction will not show up; we sow them, so several will grow from the same seed.”’
79) ”No one can live happily who has regard for himself alone and transforms everything into a question of his own utility.”
80) ”One cannot sincerely weep over getting what one wanted.”
81) ”The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.”
82) ”Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested.”
83) ”For if we could be satisfied with anything, we should have been satisfied long ago.”
84) ”Wealth is the slave of the wise man and master of the fool.”
85) ”Every pleasure is most valued when it is coming to an end.”
86) ”Where you arrive does not matter as much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.”
87) ”You can put up with a change of place if only the place is changed.”
88) ”Peace you can claim for yourself without being disliked by anyone, without any sense of loss, and without any pangs of spirit.”
89) ”Look for the best and prepare for the worst.”
90) ”Retire into yourself as much as you can. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving.”
91) ”We treat the body rigorously so that it will not be disobedient to the mind.”
92) ”There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.”
93) ”The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.”
94) ”Pure love, careless of all other things, kindles the soul with desire for the beautiful object, not without the hope of a return of the affection.”
95) ”Harmony makes small things grow; lack of harmony makes great things decay.”
96) ”The best compromise between love and good sense is both to feel longing and to conquer it.”
97) ”Only the poor man counts his flock.”
98) ”After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.”
99) ”Silently time sneaks up on you, each hour gone is followed by a worse one.”
100) ”But the man who is not puffed up in good times does not collapse either when they change.”
