Inspiring Quotes by Seneca the Younger - Page 2

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"The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns"

"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right"

"While we are postponing, life speeds by"

"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all"

"Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering"

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult"

"There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it"

"A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two"

"A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature"

"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it"

"Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last"

"Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them"

"Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute"

"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more"

"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers"

"We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift"

"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage"

"There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals"

"There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse"

"There is no delight in owning anything unshared"

"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality"

"If you judge, investigate"

"If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail"

"Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself"

"God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is"

"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind"

"He that does good to another does good also to himself"

"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God"

"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them"

"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends"

"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism"

"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment"

"Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall"

"Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune"

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live"

"A great mind becomes a great fortune"

"A great fortune is a great slavery"

"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners"

"A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor"

"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"

"A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand"

"A man's as miserable as he thinks he is"

"A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty"

"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you"

"I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?"

"Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself"

"No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline"

"I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene"

"Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color"

"Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?"

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