Seneca Quotes5 BC - 65 AD Seneca was a roman dramatist, philosopher, and politician. While his quotes were spoken many years ago they still hold wisdom for today.
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 Happiness | Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size. Seneca Words of Encouragement | But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship. Seneca Friendship | Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Seneca Inspirational Quotes | | Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. Seneca Tolerance | All this hurrying from place to place won't bring you any relief, for you're traveling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way. Seneca Trouble | It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult. Seneca Dare | The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence. Seneca Confidence | 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. Seneca Future | Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms - you'll be able to use them better when you're older. Seneca Enthusiasm | It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example. Seneca Example | 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. Seneca Simplicity | Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. Seneca Gratitude | An unpopular rule is never long maintained. Seneca Using Time Wisely A Secret | The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early. Seneca Knowledge | Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order. Seneca Fate | While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned. Seneca Quotes about Life | The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. Seneca Adversity | It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one. Seneca Attitude | If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. Seneca Funny Quotes about Life | No one can wear a mask for very long. Seneca Wise | Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. Seneca Courage | It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence. Seneca Communication | Many things have fallen only to rise higher. Seneca Encouraging | There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude - confidence in self. Seneca Blessed | The greatest remedy for anger is delay. Seneca Anger | He is most powerful who has power over himself. Seneca Believe In Yourself | Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also. Seneca Honesty | More Seneca Quotes Page 2
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