Seneca The Younger Quotes
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult
The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.
It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company
To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.
We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.
If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
