Seneca the Younger Quotes About Adversity

• A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

  Seneca the Younger

  Adversity, Color, Events

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Appreciation, Adversity

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82., 1922.

• It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXIV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

• Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Motivational, Positive, Cheer

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• Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Attitude, Adversity

• Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Adversity, Men, Brave

• The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

  Seneca the Younger

  Courage, Powerful, Adversity

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• We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

  Seneca the Younger

  Appreciation, Inspirational Life, Adversity

• Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

  Seneca the Younger

  Stupid, Philosophical, Adversity

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• The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

  Seneca the Younger

  Money, Adversity, Challenges

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• Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hero, Adversity, Men

• Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

  Seneca the Younger

  Adversity, Men, Fire

• To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

  Seneca the Younger

  Laughter, Adversity, Men

• Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

  Seneca the Younger

  Adversity, Tests, Merit

• 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.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Failure, Adversity

• Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.

  Seneca the Younger

  Powerful, Spring, Rain

• No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Adversity

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• The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Adversity, Men, Two

• In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases.

  Seneca the Younger

  Adversity, Giving, Teeth

• Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Courage

  "De Providentia" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 9-10., 1922.

• No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Adversity, Men, Unhappy

• Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

  Seneca the Younger

  Courage, Adversity, Men

• Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.

  Seneca the Younger

  Adversity, Men, Lasts

• Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.

  Seneca the Younger

  Distance, Adversity, Sides

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