Seneca the Younger Quotes About Effort

• The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

  Seneca the Younger

  Luxury, Simplicity, Effort

• Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wisdom, Courage, Fall

• Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

  Seneca the Younger

  Luxury, People, Simplicity

• Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Effort, Mind, Relaxation

• There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.

  Seneca the Younger

  Effort, Care, Diligence

• To make a commencement requires a mental effort.

  Seneca the Younger

  Effort, Commencement

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